GNU bug report logs - #15688
24.3.50; clear-temporary-overlay-map

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:10:03 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 15583, 15719, 15972, 16278, 16521, 17167, 17168, 17184

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15688: 24.3.50; clear-temporary-overlay-map
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:40:06 -0500

[ Richard, please send all email related to this issue to this
  15688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org address, otherwise the thread is nightmarish
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>> If that symbol is interned, why would its function definition get
>> GC'd at all?
>     It's not interned.  It's "make-symbol"d in set-temporary-overlay-map.
> Ok, but apparently the symbol does get marked -- so how did its function
> definition get gc'd?

I have no idea.
From the value you show it seems that the function cell's value is
not Vdead.  I tend to assume that it's always the case, but just to make
double sure: Does your build set GC_MARK_STACK?


        Stefan
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