GNU bug report logs - #29066
26.0.90; crash in gc involving buffer local symbols

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Reported by: Valentin Gatien-Baron <vgatien-baron <at> janestreet.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.0.90

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #34 received at 29066-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Valentin Gatien-Baron <vgatien-baron <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: 29066-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, mshinwell <at> janestreet.com
Subject: Re: bug#29066: 26.0.90; crash in gc involving buffer local symbols
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:09:34 +0200

> From: Valentin Gatien-Baron <vgatien-baron <at> janestreet.com>
> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:58:45 -0400
> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>,
> 	29066 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
> 	Mark Shinwell <mshinwell <at> janestreet.com>
> 
> ​The slight downside of your fix is that there are dangling pointers that point to valid-looking things in the
> debugger.

How is that different from any other symbol on symbol_free_list?

> ​But I am not going to insist. There's nothing else to do, you can close the bug. Thanks!

Thanks, done.
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