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bug#23233: 25.0.92; Crash after doing much work in Proof General
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#23233: 25.0.92; Crash after doing much work in Proof General |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Apr 2016 05:45:13 +0300 |
> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:13:05 +0200
>
> Well, an infinite hook recursion still shouldn't make Emacs crash.
Infinite recursion will crash any program due to stack overflow.
> The backtrace reminded me a bit about the known gc recursion bug that I
> can't remember the recipe for right now -- it was something about if you
> (setcar foo foo), then Emacs will segfault when trying to gc? I forget
> the details, but it's in the debbugs somewhere. :-)
I don't think this is what happened in this case. If indeed the stack
was exhausted (by having ~1000 call frames before GC started), the
crash has nothing to do with GC itself, except that GC is inherently
recursive.