From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117741: Handle C stack overflow caused by too nested Lisp evaluation.
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:37:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv38cjksjt.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1XMAE8-00085O-Du@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> (Dmitry Antipov's message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2014 06:27:32 +0000")
> + DEFVAR_LISP ("top-level-message", Vtop_level_message,
> + doc: /* Message displayed by `normal-top-level'. */);
Why does this need to be exported to Elisp?
> + /* Hard GC error may lead to stack overflow caused by
> + too nested calls to mark_object. No way to survive. */
I don't see why there's no way to survive. Isn't it safe to interrupt
GC within the mark phase and re-run it?
Stefan
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2014-08-26 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-08-27 3:17 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117741: Handle C stack overflow caused by too nested Lisp evaluation Dmitry Antipov
2014-08-27 5:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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