From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:02:00 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <40A3BC23.8060000@math.ku.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084569708 22405 80.91.224.253 (14 May 2004 21:21:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 21:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 14 23:21:43 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 1BOk7j-0006ZR-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 23:21:43 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOk7j-00007l-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 23:21:43 +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 1BOjsC-0005lr-Hg for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOjrz-0005ks-7a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOjrS-0005XX-Rd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:05:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOjoe-0004iF-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:02:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BOjoe-00071K-5y; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:02:00 -0400 Original-To: Lars Hansen In-reply-to: <40A3BC23.8060000@math.ku.dk> (message from Lars Hansen on Thu, 13 May 2004 20:19:15 +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:23425 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23425 #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.