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bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version)
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version) |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:48:16 +0100 |
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> The present bug is reported from a modified version of Emacs, but with
>> no test case, no description of events leading to the crash, and an
>> uninformative backtrace. For all we know, it is due to your own
>> unspecified changes. So it is more profitable for Emacs developers to
>> work on the bugs in our tree that need attention.
>
> Actually, this is not the main reason, AFAIC. The problem is that we
> simply have no way to debug it. Especially for a bug that causes
> a segfault in the GC, i.e. a bug that apparently causes memory
> corruption and could hence be anywhere.
True. However I am reporting such bugs because I believe there might
be a race condition caused by bad thread coordination behind it. But
of course this is just a guess. However as long as we do not have take
all possible actions to avoid this I think it is a reasonable guess.
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version), (continued)
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version), Chong Yidong, 2011/03/23
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version), Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/23
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version), Chong Yidong, 2011/03/23
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version), Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/23
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version), Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/23
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version), Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/24
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version), Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/24
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version), Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/24
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version), Chong Yidong, 2011/03/24
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version), Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/24
- bug#8334: Segmentation fault in mark_object (in my patched version),
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