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Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth |
Date: |
29 Apr 2004 12:52:22 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> I don't grok this C level stuff,
It's actually assembler-level.
> but if this value is available to Emacs, couldn't it just check it and
> proceed in the same manner as when `max-lisp-eval-depth' is exceeded?
Well, just like you discovered, the value is not placed in a standard
variable, so for each and every system the variable name can be different.
There might not even be such a variable.
But even if we were to add the #ifdefs needed to get this variable name in
the few cases where we know it, it'd still be difficult to use: the stack
is extended at every function call by code introduced by the C compiler, so
we'd either have to hook into the compiler to add a check there (basically
hopeless) or do the check every once in a while (e.g. in `eval') and use
some "safety margin", hoping it'll be enough to keep us going til the next
such check, or rely on the SEGV signal: catch it and analyse it to see if
it's a stack overflow.
The last option is the best but is very system dependent and tricky
to write.
In other words: patches welcome,
Stefan
- 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, 2004/04/28
- 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 <=
- Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/29