GNU bug report logs - #2099
stack overflow in GC when creating large nested object

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Message #34 received at 2099 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: markus.triska <at> gmx.at
Cc: alan <at> idiocy.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, 2099 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2099: 23.0.60; `mark_object' with larger nested objects
 crashes Emacs
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:16:38 +0200

> From: markus.triska <at> gmx.at
> Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 2099 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:10:26 +0100
> 
> Marking this as "wontfix" seems particularly inapplicable to me: This
> shortcoming crashes Emacs and potentially causes data loss for users,
> not only in such an artificial test case but in other situations too.
> This shortcoming prevents my testing Emacs in many other ways that would
> help me to find and correct more shortcomings and make Emacs more robust.

Sorry, I don't understand: what testing?  Can you describe the
real-life use case behind this bug report?  The recipe as shown looks
like a deliberate way to cause Emacs to overflow its stack; surely,
that's not what you intended to test?

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