Re: Second GC-related crash in two days

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Kim F. Storm" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed,  8 Mar 2006 11:25:26 +0100 (CET)
> 
> This is the second gc-related crash in two days.
> 
> Some recent change must be the culprit, as I have not seen a
> crash for years, using CVS emacs daily for all my work!!
> 
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> mark_object (arg=1) at alloc.c:5618
> 5618            if (ptr->gcmarkbit) break;
> (gdb) bt
> #0  mark_object (arg=1) at alloc.c:5618
> #1  0x081284fb in mark_object (arg=1) at alloc.c:5609
> #2  0x08128735 in mark_object (arg=1) at alloc.c:5734
> #3  0x08127359 in mark_memory (start=0xbfffc940, end=0xbfffe92c)
>     at alloc.c:4343
> #4  0x081273c4 in mark_stack () at alloc.c:4567
> #5  0x08127af7 in Fgarbage_collect () at alloc.c:5087

Kim, can you find out what data structure is being marked here?
etc/DEBUG has a section that explains how to debug crashes inside GC.