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Re: Fix for Mac OS X Garbage Collection Crashes


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Fix for Mac OS X Garbage Collection Crashes
Date: 14 Oct 2003 17:31:57 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

>> #define GC_MARK_STACK   GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS

This is probably a good change indeed.

> The problem is caused by a change to src/alloc.c about a month ago that
> causes garbage collection to crash under certain circumstances (when
> LISP_INT values are on the gcprolist) if GC_MARK_STACK is set to
> GC_USE_GCPROS_AS_BEFORE. The best way to fix the problem is probably to
> fix the bug introduced. I don't want to work on that. Instead I have now

That's interesting.  It needs definitely to be fixed.  Could you
give us as much info about this problem as you've encountered during
your debugging effort ?


        Stefan




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