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bug#24358: 25.1.50; re-search-forward errors with "Variable binding dept


From: Sam Halliday
Subject: bug#24358: 25.1.50; re-search-forward errors with "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size"
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:13:33 +0100

I built 96ac0c3 and got a problem with the same part of the build, but
this time at 10%. Apologies, I don't have the free time to do another
debug run on it tonight.

I tried with REL_ALLOC=no and that builds fine! Thank you for the
workaround. I will still try to help with debug info.


Re: docker, it is libre software and you should be able to install it
using whatever package manager you have. It allows you to run
containerised GNU distributions using your current linux kernel.
Pre-built images are made available through the "hocker hub", e.g.
https://hub.docker.com/r/base/archlinux/

If you have docker installed you would type something like this (don't
forget to add your user to the docker group)

  docker run -it base/archlinux

and (after downloading the "layers"), it will drop you into a shell
running that OS. ArchLinux uses "pacman" as the package manager and
you might need to run something like "pacman -S devel-base emacs" to
get everything you need. Once you exit this shell, all your changes
are lost, so you might want to investigate mounting a local directory
into the container, e.g. so you don't need to download emacs git tree
every time.

I'm no expert, I've only used it a few times before but it is
invaluable when it works.


On 24 October 2016 at 14:29,  <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I was able to reproduce the failure in ja-dic-cnv after removing
> --with-x-toolkit=lucid --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-gif=no
> --with-jpeg=no from my configure args (I guess using GTK changes the
> allocation patterns), and doing 'make extraclean'.
>
> The error went away after I updated to the latest emacs-25 commit:
> ee04aedc72 "Fix handling of buffer relocation in regex.c functions".
> The error occurs in the commit just before it 71ca4f6a "Avoid relocating
> buffers while libxml2 reads its text", so I think Eli's fix for the base
> pointer in search_buffer does solve the problem.
>
> Sam, can you confirm if this fixes it for you?
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
>>> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:14:59 -0400
>>> Cc: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>, 24358@debbugs.gnu.org
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> > Noam, I think we need these two changes, because otherwise looping
>>> > more than once in search_buffer will fail to update the pointers
>>> > passed to re_search_2, if buffer text was relocated inside
>>> > re_search_2.
>>> >
>>> > Do you agree?
>>>
>>> Ack, yes! Missing the update to base was a total thinko on my part.
>>
>> Pushed.
>>
>> There might be a more serious problem with this, unfortunately: the
>> search registers are computed in regex.c using pointers into the C
>> strings that are being searched.  The general paradigm is as in this
>> fragment:
>>
>>   regstart[*p] = d;
>>   [...]
>>   regs->start[reg] = POINTER_TO_OFFSET (regstart[reg]);
>>
>> POINTER_TO_OFFSET assumes that the pointer in regstart[reg] is
>> consistent with the current base address of the string into which it
>> points.  Did you study this aspect of regex.c when you decided which
>> values need to be affected by relocation?
>
> I did not look at that before, but looking now, I don't see why it would
> be a problem.  I put the base address updating code around the only
> place where malloc may be called, so string1 and string2 (which
> POINTER_TO_OFFSET uses) should always be consistent with the base
> address (unless there is some other malloc call that I missed?).





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