GNU bug report logs - #21556
25.0.50; Memory leak in emacs -Q with lucid (font cache cleared prematurely)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>

Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:06:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>
Cc: handa <at> gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 21556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21556: 25.0.50; Memory leak in emacs -Q with lucid (font)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 08:04:44 +0300

On 10/01/2015 09:50 PM, Dima Kogan wrote:

> OK, so are you suggesting changing how mark_face_cache() works? How bad
> is it to accept that fonts and font entities are not necessarily linked,
> and to install the latest patch in this bug?

I'm suggesting to check whether there are unmarked font objects after marking
from Vfontset_table, and, if so, understand whether it's correct. Otherwise
your patch, even being correct by itself, may just hide subtle GC bug.

Dmitry
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