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Re: [Help-smalltalk] GC Crash/Bug due recursion?
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Help-smalltalk] GC Crash/Bug due recursion? |
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Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:27:16 +0200 |
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 16:15, Holger Hans Peter Freyther
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 04:11 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>> Looks like an infinite loop in Smalltalk... Do you have enough stack
>> space to do a "call _gst_show_backtrace(stdout)" from gdb?
>
> Hi,
>
> yes, I just wonder if things should crash or if this can be prevented, it
> seems to create an infinite loop in the GC which is weird... of course with
> recursion in smalltalk the stack will be full too..
Yes, I think the problem is that the C stack of the marker is
exhausted before the whole Smalltalk stack is visited.
Paolo