From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suspicious error in GTk
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:37:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wgixm5k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvhcpe45eo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon\, 11 Jun 2007 16\:19\:56 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> While trying out SYNC_INPUT with Gtk together with the `eassert' debugging
> I bumped into the appended backtrace, right at startup. Basically, the code
> run from XTread_socket (run asynchronously at any time) can call
> update_frame_tool_bar which in turn calls xpm_load which ends up calling
> encode_coding_string (to encode the file's name) which fiddles with
> specpdl_ptr (via record_unwind_protect) and may run elisp code.
>
> Most likely it will usually not lead to any problem, but I believe it'll
> bite every now and then and will be difficult to trace.
ISTR that parts of alloc.c are carried out inside BLOCK_INPUT, but
only if SYNC_INPUT is off. Does this mean that we need BLOCK_INPUT
even when SYNC_INPUT is on?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-11 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-11 20:19 Suspicious error in GTk Stefan Monnier
2007-06-11 20:37 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2007-06-11 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-12 6:13 ` Jan Djärv
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