Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 20:09:47 +0200
> From: Lars Hansen <address@hidden>
> 
> Richard Stallman wrote:
> 
> >    #0  0x402ec781 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
> >    #1  0x080dfe0a in abort () at emacs.c:433
> >    #2  0x08128037 in mark_object (arg=1217041176) at alloc.c:5034
> >    #3  0x0812809a in mark_object (arg=-1463681024) at alloc.c:5051
> >    #4  0x08126b43 in mark_memory (start=0xbfffe070, end=0xbffff7e8)
> >     at alloc.c:3700
> >    #5  0x08126f73 in mark_stack () at alloc.c:4055
> >
> >Can you figure out what data structure is being traversed by those
> >frames?  That's a lot of work, but it is the only way I know of to try
> >to debug a problem of this kind.
> >
> I am afraid I do not know enough about gdb and Emacs memory management 
> to do that.

There's some guidance in the file etc/DEBUG (search for "in GC"), and
you can always ask for more specific help here.