Attached below is a debugging patch, and its output,
which shows that the stack bounds are frequently
up-side-down, and are sometimes upside-down
when the GC runs, thus leading to a crash.
In the next email, I'll propose a patch that fixes the
the problem.
The original problem report:
Hi Linas,
[cc'ing them all, but followups to just one please -- bug-guile is
probably best]
For my part I apologize for not having the cycles to poke this more
thoroughly. Fortunately you are a good programmer and can figure things
out :)
History: pthread support was new with 1.8, as you
Patch below; I'm also attaching the same patch, in case
gmail is scrambling this thing :-/ Also, I've long had a
generic assignment on file with the FSF.
--linas
The patch below fixes a crash during garbage collection, where, during
the mark-stack phase, the top and bottom of the stack are
2008/11/13 Andy Wingo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
For my part I apologize for not having the cycles
Fine, I'm hacking around it for now, but would like to see
something for 1.8.6.
On Thu 13 Nov 2008 05:56, Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Basically, at any given time, some thread might be
in
