bug#9457: crashes and hangs during mark_object / gc: infinite recursion?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have received 51 bug reports since April this year about crashes and hangs
> during mark_object, which always seems to be in very deep or infinite
> recursion.

mark)_object is a function that tends to always recurse very deeply.
That's normal.
Check the etc/DEBUG to see how to try and find the source of those bugs.

> The build in question is based on a very recent version of Emacs 23
> (from the repository).

You mean from the emacs23 branch?


        Stefan