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Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth
From: |
Jesper Harder |
Subject: |
Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Apr 2004 03:56:59 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
>> > But the first question is IMHO whether this is indeed the case here.
>> > That is, can you check that the stack is overrun in your case?
>>
>> How do I check that?
>
> Assuming this is an Intel processor, print the value of the ESP
> register, and compare that with the stack limit.
esp 0xbf7ffff4
> The stack limit is stored in a global variable whose name is
> specific to the C library used to link Emacs. I don't know the name
> of that variable for your library, but asking some guru for your OS
> would probably produce the answer.
I have no idea how to figure out that name (why doesn't the glibc
documentation tell?).
But increasing the stack with 'ulimit -s' stops Emacs from crashing
for this particular value of `max-lisp-eval-depth'. I suppose that
means that the stack _did_ overrun?
--
Jesper Harder <http://purl.org/harder/>
- Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth, Jesper Harder, 2004/04/26
- Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/27
- Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth, Jesper Harder, 2004/04/27
- Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/04/28
- Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth, Jesper Harder, 2004/04/28
- Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/04/28
- Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth,
Jesper Harder <=
- Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/04/29
- Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth, Jesper Harder, 2004/04/29
- Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth, Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/29
- Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/29