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Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC |
Date: |
20 May 2004 02:44:42 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> > Yesterday, I did a partial test where I wrote a fun to check all
> > Lisp_Misc blocks for invalid misc types (except Lisp_Misc_Free) for
> > every call to Fcons -- and no such problems occurred, i.e. the bad
> > misc cells pointed to from some cons cells were NOT in the marker
> > block chain...
>
> Hmm... was this run before, after, or during GC ?
It was on every entry to Fcons -- so pretty often.
I also call'ed the check function directly from gdb after it had
crashed, and there were still no invalid misc objects...
> Can you use the mem_find to try and figure out whether it's pointing at a
> GC-managed block or not?
IIRC, it was pointing to a MEM_CONS block.
> Can you also disable the block-release code (the one that calls xfree on
> blocks of cnos cells and lisp_misc objects) to see if it is maybe pointing
> to blocks that have been reclaimed?
I will try that.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, (continued)
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Kim F. Storm, 2004/05/17
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/17
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/18
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Kim F. Storm, 2004/05/19
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/19
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Kim F. Storm, 2004/05/19
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/19
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Kim F. Storm, 2004/05/19
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/19
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Kim F. Storm, 2004/05/22
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/23
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/23
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Kim F. Storm, 2004/05/24
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/28
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Kim F. Storm, 2004/05/29
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/29
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Kim F. Storm, 2004/05/29
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/30
- Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC, Kim F. Storm, 2004/05/31