GNU bug report logs - #15719
24.3.50; crash in GC (again)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:51:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 15583, 15688, 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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Message #13 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 16278 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16278: 24.3.50; Crashes in GC continue
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 08:29:28 -0500

severity 16278 important
thanks

> Why create that symbol?  Why not use an interned symbol?  A comment
> says that nested temporary maps don't work anyway.

Actually, the code (and the comment) has recently been changed to make
nesting work.  Oh wait, I see I haven't committed it yet.  Should be
there real soon, tho.

> Of course, the real bug is in GC.  The Lisp code is correct and it
> ought to work.  But I don't understand the GC bug, and no one else
> is fixing it.

I think it's important to fix this bug, and much better than to try and
work around it (without knowing if that workaround actually works).


        Stefan
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