From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 18:33:02 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <9003-Sun23May2004183302+0300-eliz@gnu.org> References: <40A3BC23.8060000@math.ku.dk> <40AF976B.2090104@math.ku.dk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085334460 11835 80.91.224.253 (23 May 2004 17:47:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 17:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 23 19:47:25 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRx4G-0000iF-00 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 19:47:24 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRx4G-0005yw-00 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 19:47:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BRvUS-0006Eo-7o for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 23 May 2004 12:06:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BRvIh-0004GC-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2004 11:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BRvFc-0003as-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2004 11:51:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.23] (helo=aragorn.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BRuzs-0008Iu-R0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2004 11:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.144.174]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.6-GR) with ESMTP id CXV15311; Sun, 23 May 2004 18:34:39 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Lars Hansen X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <40AF976B.2090104@math.ku.dk> (message from Lars Hansen on Sat, 22 May 2004 20:09:47 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23856 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23856 > Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 20:09:47 +0200 > From: Lars Hansen > > Richard Stallman wrote: > > > #0 0x402ec781 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 > > #1 0x080dfe0a in abort () at emacs.c:433 > > #2 0x08128037 in mark_object (arg=1217041176) at alloc.c:5034 > > #3 0x0812809a in mark_object (arg=-1463681024) at alloc.c:5051 > > #4 0x08126b43 in mark_memory (start=0xbfffe070, end=0xbffff7e8) > > at alloc.c:3700 > > #5 0x08126f73 in mark_stack () at alloc.c:4055 > > > >Can you figure out what data structure is being traversed by those > >frames? That's a lot of work, but it is the only way I know of to try > >to debug a problem of this kind. > > > I am afraid I do not know enough about gdb and Emacs memory management > to do that. There's some guidance in the file etc/DEBUG (search for "in GC"), and you can always ask for more specific help here.