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26.0.91; Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files'

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Message #65 received at 30626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: npostavs <at> gmail.com, 30626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30626: 26.0.91;
 Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files'
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:25:45 +0100

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

> I don't think it's thrown away from the POV of GC.  But you can easily
> see what is going on if you trace the GC on the C level.  You should
> be able to see which object causes recursion in mark_object.  I didn't
> look long enough, but what I did see looks very much like the entire
> unwound stream.

I have an idea what could be going on.  In the stream-range example,
this is how the stream is build:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(list stream--identifier
      (let
          (forced val)
        (lambda
          (&optional check)
          (if
              check
              forced
            (unless
                forced
              (setf
               val
               (progn
                 (cons
                  start
                  (stream-range (+ start step) end step))))
              (setf forced t))
            val))))
#+end_src

The inner `stream-range' call results in a closure, and I guess that
this closure includes a reference to the outside VAL, which is the
stream from one step back (though there isn't a lexical reference to the
variable...does that make sense?)

So there could be a chain of references via closure variables back to
the first cons.


Michael.

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