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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:15:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 31362

Found in version 24.5

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #46 received at 2099 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan J Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 2099 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, markus.triska <at> gmx.at
Subject: Re: bug#2099: 23.0.60;
 `mark_object' with larger nested objects crashes Emacs
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 22:45:42 +0200

> From: Alan J Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
> Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org,  2099 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  larsi <at> gnus.org
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:32:48 +0000
> 
> FWIW I found a 'real-world' bug report, bug#16039, which appears to have
> the same cause, although it requires a different remedy.

No, that's a different cause.  That bug is about stack overflow in
regexp matcher, not in GC.  Such stack overflows should nowadays be
recoverable (at least on most platforms), unlike a stack overflow in
GC that still isn't.
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