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From: Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: An Error in Early Boot
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:06:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=o7f_YAKNFHMAs9Xr8taGt+9nwMkUTJbxZamQp@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

I got into a situation just now when Guile was generating an error
very early in the boot process (it was loading some objcode from
scm_init_eval_in_scheme(), I think, although I haven't looked enough
to be sure). The fun part is, instead of printing an error message, it
got into an infinite recursion that eventually ended in a memory
fault.

The reason is that scm_error_scm in error.c calls scm_ithrow (error.c:315),
which finds its way through scm_throw and some VM calls to
pre_init_throw (throw.c:495)
which in turn gets it to scm_at_abort, which goes to scm_c_abort,
which finally calls scm_misc_error (control.c:210) because it can't
find a prompt on the dynamic stack because the error is too early,
which leads back to scm_error_scm again.

However, I'm not quite sure how to fix this.

Noah



             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-14 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-14 21:06 Noah Lavine [this message]
2010-10-14 23:36 ` An Error in Early Boot Mike Gran
2010-10-15  2:31   ` Noah Lavine

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