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Re: Crash on invalid cons_free_list
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Crash on invalid cons_free_list |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:07:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
> It seems that most of the crashes triggered by VM are somehow related
> to mapcar -- and in this case a mapcar called inside mapatoms.
>
> The crash happens when cons encounters invalid data in the free list.
> However, the bug occurred earlier, when the data became invalid.
I find that significantly lowering gc-cons-threshold helps a lot in
triggering such errors more often and making them occur somewhat
closer to their origin.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum