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26.0.90; crash in gc involving buffer local symbols

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From: Valentin Gatien-Baron <vgatien-baron <at> janestreet.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 29066-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, Mark Shinwell <mshinwell <at> janestreet.com>
Subject: bug#29066: 26.0.90; crash in gc involving buffer local symbols
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:13:10 -0400

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On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > 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?
>

Ok, maybe it's no different.


>
> > ​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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