Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC

[Kim F. Storm]

Lars Hansen <address@hidden> writes:

> For a long time I have experienced occasional crashes of CVS Emacs,
> usually during Tramp operations. I have four backtraces in case
> someone is interested, but I have not been able produce a test
> case. To me it looks as if GC is involved, but I am unexperienced with
> gdb. When Kim told he had fixed a bug involving GC and process output,
> it seemed at first very likely to be the cause of my
> troubles. However:
> 
> 1. In one of the crashes Tramp was not involved.
> 2. CVS Emacs of today with Kim's fix, just crashed during a Tramp operation.
> 
> So now I don't know what to think.

I just installed a change which I hope will fix these crashes.
Please report if you stil experience crashes in mark_object.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk