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Re: Emacs crashes


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs crashes
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:31:16 +0200

> From: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:25:44 +1300
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>  >      > A simple list of values recorded in last_marked[] won't do.  You 
> need
>  >      > to correlate it with the innermost frames you see in the backtrace,
>  >      > and from that correlation figure out the name of the Lisp data
>  >      > structure that is being marked.  The connection between the values
>  >      > recorded in last_marked[] will be revealed if you look at the code,
>  >      > because, e.g., when GC finds a cons, it recursively marks its car 
> and
>  >      > its cdr.  By looking at the code, you should be able to find this 
> and
>  >      > other similar connections between the values, like A being a 
> property
>  >      > of B etc.
>  > 
>  >     OK, this tells me more than I could find in DEBUG. 
>  > 
>  > Could you add some of that to DEBUG?
> 
> It would be better coming from Eli, but I will do this if he doesn't have the
> time.

Done.




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