Subject: Re: bug#9457: crashes and hangs during mark_object / gc: infinite recursion?

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:39:52 -0400

> I have received 51 bug reports since April this year about crashes and hangs
> during mark_object, which always seems to be in very deep or infinite
> recursion.

mark)_object is a function that tends to always recurse very deeply.
That's normal.
Check the etc/DEBUG to see how to try and find the source of those bugs.

> The build in question is based on a very recent version of Emacs 23
> (from the repository).

You mean from the emacs23 branch?

        Stefan