Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, David Kastrup wrote: >> Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: >> > The attached patch fixes a segfault in mark_smob where s gets >> > optimized away and garbage collected before m goes out of scope, >> > leading to a segfault. >> > >> > There may be other cases of this bug floating around, but I didn't >> > look particularly hard for them. >> >> > diff --git a/lily/font-metric.cc b/lily/font-metric.cc >> > index 6990afe..8ca88ef 100644 >> > --- a/lily/font-metric.cc >> > +++ b/lily/font-metric.cc >> > @@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ Font_metric::mark_smob (SCM s) >> > { >> > Font_metric *m = (Font_metric *) SCM_CELL_WORD_1 (s); >> > m->derived_mark (); >> > + // we must do this to avoid s being optimized out and garbage >> > + // collected; leading to a segfault above. >> > + scm_remember_upto_here_1(s); >> > return m->description_; >> > } >> >> That makes precious little sense: mark_smob is only called while garbage >> collection is in progress, so garbage collection can't be triggered in >> its middle. > > The backtrace for this bug is here: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=55;filename=lilypond-segfault.txt;att=1;bug=684817 > > And the attached patch does fix it; however, it's possible that this > is just because the patch obfuscates the actual bug. I'm certainly not > an expert in guile nor lilypond internals at all.
More likely there is a difference in behavior because you recompiled with different options in order to facilitate debugging or used a different compiler. Or the added code caused different memory layout. At any rate, the patch does not make sense. The bug report also is for LilyPond 2.14.2. A possible fix was committed as commit 13fc2437e2aaa9ec5a65926dcb54d233a4797f45 Author: Joe Neeman <joenee...@gmail.com> Date: Fri Jul 15 09:56:28 2011 +1000 Fix a segfault caused by improper initialization of SCM. diff --git a/lily/pango-font.cc b/lily/pango-font.cc index a4fea75..26f2e53 100644 --- a/lily/pango-font.cc +++ b/lily/pango-font.cc @@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ Pango_font::Pango_font (PangoFT2FontMap *fontmap, PangoFontDescription const *description, Real output_scale) { + // This line looks stupid, but if we don't initialize physical_font_tab_ befo + // we allocate memory in scm_c_make_hash_table, then that could trigger a gar + // collection. + physical_font_tab_ = SCM_EOL; physical_font_tab_ = scm_c_make_hash_table (11); PangoDirection pango_dir = PANGO_DIRECTION_LTR; context_ = pango_context_new (); in version 2.15.6. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel