GNU bug report logs - #30626
26.0.91; Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:23:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 26.0.91

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 30626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30626: 26.0.91; Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files'
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:00:39 +0200

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, 30626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:39:47 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I guess it's a stack overflow: that function recurses into
> > subdirectories.
> >
> > To avoid such problems, the function should be rewritten to work by
> > BFS, not DFS.
> 
> Here is the backtrace I'm now able to produce.  Looks like the crash
> happens in gc:

GC is deeply-recursive, and you have exacerbated that by using up a
lot of stack.
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