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- From: douglis@MITL.COM (Fred Douglis)
- Subject: illegal instruction on DECstation/5000 - mark_object bug?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.193322.6348@MITL.COM>
- Keywords: core dump mark_object
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- Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:33:22 GMT
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- In epoch 4.2, running on Ultrix V4.2, I have had epoch die on me
- several times in less than a week. (Epoch was just installed here;
- prior to that I used vanilla gnu emacs.)
-
- A backtrace from gdb claims that the core file doesn't match. A
- backtrace from dbx shows hundreds of frames of mark_object, as follows:
-
- (dbx) where
- > 0 abort.abort(0x45d68c, 0x29, 0x10133454, 0x1019ec54, 0x1452cb00) ["../exit.c":80, 0x4b341c]
- 1 .block207 ["alloc.c":1170, 0x45d704]
- 2 mark_object(objptr = 0x1052cb24) ["alloc.c":1170, 0x45d704]
- 3 .block205 ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554]
- 4 mark_object(objptr = 0x103d4888) ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554]
- 5 .block205 ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554]
- 6 mark_object(objptr = 0x103d4194) ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554]
- 7 .block205 ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554]
- 8 mark_object(objptr = 0x1013aa78) ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554]
- 9 .block205 ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554]
- 10 mark_object(objptr = 0x10150998) ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554]
- 11 .block206 ["alloc.c":1113, 0x45d5d0]
- 12 mark_object(objptr = 0x10139d90) ["alloc.c":1113, 0x45d5d0]
- 13 .block205 ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554]
- 14 mark_object(objptr = 0x1010e9e4) ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554]
- 15 .block207 ["alloc.c":1140, 0x45d688]
- 16 mark_object(objptr = 0x1010e0a8) ["alloc.c":1140, 0x45d688]
- 17 .block207 ["alloc.c":1140, 0x45d688]
- More (n if no)?
- ...
-
-
- Any idea what might cause this? Any patches available? Many thanks for
- suggestions.
-
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- Fred Douglis
- Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory | Email: douglis@mitl.com
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