Subject: bug#15794: Core dump after SIGTERM during GC marking

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 07:37:04 +0100

Barry OReilly <[email-masked]> writes:

> #60 0x00000000004ecaa5 in deliver_process_signal (sig=15, handler=0x4ebc30 <handle_fatal_signal>) at sysdep.c:1597
>         old_errno = 11
>         on_main_thread = true
> #61 <signal handler called>
> No symbol table info available.
> #62 string_intervals (s=57280353) at lisp.h:3129
> No locals.
> #63 mark_object (arg=<optimized out>) at alloc.c:5957
>         ptr = <optimized out>
>         ptrx = <optimized out>
>         obj = 59121106
>         cdr_count = 0

The signal was received during GC.  Shouldn't its handling be postponed
then?

Andreas.

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