From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs crashes Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:31:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <17429.54459.803236.351040@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17431.11106.207260.301400@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17431.50979.793825.145291@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17432.35295.698354.992551@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17433.55256.142540.57348@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142879185 18053 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2006 18:26:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 20 19:26:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLP54-0003WH-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:26:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLP53-0004ez-LD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:26:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKcT8-0001lE-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:31:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKcT6-0001ka-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:31:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKcT5-0001kV-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:31:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FKcYD-0005uo-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:37:05 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id IEM26572; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:31:19 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-248-61.inter.net.il [84.228.248.61]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id CXN83517 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:31:16 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Nick Roberts In-reply-to: <17433.55256.142540.57348@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:25:44 +1300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51902 Archived-At: > From: Nick Roberts > Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:25:44 +1300 > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > A simple list of values recorded in last_marked[] won't do. You need > > > to correlate it with the innermost frames you see in the backtrace, > > > and from that correlation figure out the name of the Lisp data > > > structure that is being marked. The connection between the values > > > recorded in last_marked[] will be revealed if you look at the code, > > > because, e.g., when GC finds a cons, it recursively marks its car and > > > its cdr. By looking at the code, you should be able to find this and > > > other similar connections between the values, like A being a property > > > of B etc. > > > > OK, this tells me more than I could find in DEBUG. > > > > Could you add some of that to DEBUG? > > It would be better coming from Eli, but I will do this if he doesn't have the > time. Done.