Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC

[Kim F. Storm]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> > So setting evalargs and debug_on_exit clears the lower part of the
> > Lisp_Object which happened to be on the stack on entry, but not the rest
> > of it, so it points into a legal cons_block cell, but one which probably
> > isn't in use anymore.
> 
> > I will install a fix for this specific issue shortly.
> 
> Please show us the fix first.

The fix was to pad/zero-fill the backtrace structure.

Understanding more about what's going on now, that fix is not needed,
so I will not install it.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk