Subject: Re: bug#16901: 24.3.50; emacs_backtrace.txt

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:41:46 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:48:48 +0100
> Cc: Dmitry Antipov <[email-masked]>, Drew Adams <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> >> compact_small_strings at alloc.c:1960
> >> sweep_strings at alloc.c:1890
> >> gc_sweep at alloc.c:6333
> >> Fgarbage_collect at alloc.c:5572
> >> maybe_gc at lisp.h:4518
> 
> What it is quite puzzling is that Drew is basically using the same
> builds than I do (in quite different ways, of course), and yet I've
> got very few gc crashes, perhaps a couple in the last month, while he
> seems to get them a lot.

Because it's some usage pattern that triggers this, not the way you
build Emacs.