Subject: bug#2099: 23.0.60; `mark_object' with larger nested objects crashes Emacs

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:47:42 +0200

So, the problem here seems simply to be that we blow up the stack by
recursing so ridiculously deep?  I think?

Looking at mark_object, it seems like it could pretty easily be
rewritten to be non-recursive, just by changing it into a loop, and
using a stack to do visit all the objects.

But that's probably not an Emacs 24.1 thing.

The other question is what other interesting deep-nesting bugs a
structure like that might reveal, so even if we fix the mark_object
case, that might not help us much.  Difficult to say...

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