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Segmentation fault in purecopy while dumping - stack overflow attempting to copy cyclic Lisp value

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 56794-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56794: Segmentation fault in purecopy while dumping - stack
 overflow attempting to copy cyclic Lisp value
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:02:28 -0800

Lynn Winebarger <owinebar <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I apologize for not being able to include significant details of the build, as this is happening on a
> sandboxed system in a proprietary context.
> I've been attempting to dump emacs built from the 28.1 tarball with a large number of core libraries
> preloaded.  I have observed segmentation faults when attempting to dump with native-compilation
> enabled and with native-compilation disabled.  However, it only happened with one file
> (nxml/rng-pttrn.el) while dumping several hundred core libraries with native compilation.  With native
> compilation disabled, the problem has appeared with both auth-source.el and
> emacs-lisp/eieio-core.el, the latter preventing me from proceeding much further in the dump process.
>  Note these were both dumped successfully with native-compilation enabled.
> I used gdb to look at the backtrace after the segmentation fault while loading auth-source.el, and the
> stack was in a tight recursive loop in purecopy:
>
>  for (i = 0; i < size; i++)
>
>  vec->contents[i] = purecopy (vec->contents[i]);
>
> In this case the index I alternated between two values in each pair of stack frames: 0 and 10.
> I'm not familiar enough with the layout of lisp objects to recognize the pseudo vector type on site, but
> it's probably a byte-vector with a recursive call - the constants vector in slot 0, and the recursive
> binding in slot 10 of the constants vector.  Plus, the fact that this started happening more frequently
> with byte-compilation only is suspicious in itself.
> Since I'm restricted to using official release tarballs with only local modifications, I'd welcome any
> hints on any "quick fix" to the problem aside from the long-term solution of just eliminating purecopy
> altogether (unless that can be done with a de minimis change to the code).

With the removal of purespace on master, `purecopy' is now an alias for
`identity', so I don't think there's anything more to do here.  Thanks
for reporting it, nevertheless.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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