Hello,
I'm using GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 on Mac OS X 10.11. I've been able to reproduce this hang a couple times, the gist of it is:
1. Open a specific markdown document (using markdown-mode, from MELPA).
2. Make a specific change to this document (deleting one line)
3. Emacs hangs
I attached lldb (sorry Richard :-)) to it and discovered a stack trace 4000 frames deep, almost all of which were in functions named things like "mark_vector" and "mark_object". I've attached the stack trace to this email. A few choice lines:
* frame #0: 0x00000001000fd88a Emacs`mark_object + 758
frame #1: 0x00000001000fd6fc Emacs`mark_object + 360
frame #2: 0x00000001000fd6fc Emacs`mark_object + 360
frame #3: 0x00000001000fd83a Emacs`mark_object + 678
frame #4: 0x00000001000fdc0c Emacs`mark_vectorlike + 65
frame #5: 0x00000001000fd7f4 Emacs`mark_object + 608
frame #6: 0x00000001000fd6fc Emacs`mark_object + 360
frame #7: 0x00000001000fd7fd Emacs`mark_object + 617
frame #8: 0x00000001000fd6fc Emacs`mark_object + 360
frame #9: 0x00000001000fd7fd Emacs`mark_object + 617
frame #10: 0x00000001000fdc0c Emacs`mark_vectorlike + 65
frame #11: 0x00000001000fd83a Emacs`mark_object + 678
frame #12: 0x00000001000fd83a Emacs`mark_object + 678
frame #13: 0x00000001000fdc0c Emacs`mark_vectorlike + 65
frame #4581: 0x00000001000fdc0c Emacs`mark_vectorlike + 65
frame #4582: 0x00000001000fdb17 Emacs`mark_buffer + 25
frame #4583: 0x00000001000fc8aa Emacs`Fgarbage_collect + 545
frame #4584: 0x0000000100115967 Emacs`Ffuncall + 293
frame #4585: 0x00000001001473f9 Emacs`exec_byte_code + 2039
frame #4586: 0x0000000100115a7a Emacs`Ffuncall + 568
frame #4587: 0x0000000100115fce Emacs`call1 + 45
frame #4588: 0x000000010011c95a Emacs`mapcar1 + 503
frame #4589: 0x000000010011cad0 Emacs`Fmapcar + 255
frame #4620: 0x0000000100115a7a Emacs`Ffuncall + 568
frame #4621: 0x000000010011489d Emacs`internal_condition_case_n + 90
frame #4622: 0x0000000100021898 Emacs`safe__call + 355
frame #4623: 0x0000000100021720 Emacs`safe_call + 160
frame #4624: 0x000000010003fed9 Emacs`handle_fontified_prop + 416
frame #4625: 0x000000010003f3cf Emacs`handle_stop + 120
frame #4626: 0x00000001000422f2 Emacs`next_element_from_buffer + 740
frame #4627: 0x000000010001c52d Emacs`get_next_display_element + 49
frame #4628: 0x000000010001dc63 Emacs`move_it_in_display_line_to + 810
frame #4629: 0x000000010001c197 Emacs`move_it_to + 860
frame #4630: 0x000000010001a0d5 Emacs`move_it_by_lines + 83
frame #4631: 0x0000000100019fd7 Emacs`line_bottom_y + 91
Unfortunately, I'm probably not allowed to attach the markdown document to this email. I'm perfectly happy to enable any kind of diagnostics which may help in debugging this and attach them to this bug. I'll also install a newer pretest version and see if I can reproduce the bug there.
Thanks,
Tom Jakubowski
backtrace.txt