Re: Overlays as an AA-tree

[Stefan Monnier]

> I managed to get it to compile at last, but now I'm hitting another
> issue. temacs segfaults in a gc while loading simple.el.  It seems
> somehow some memory doesn't look like it should, because the stack trace
> from the gc is about 1100 frames!  Mostly mark_object, with some
> mark_vectorlike here and there.  How do I debug something like that?
> I tried putting a breakpoint in mark_buffer, but that function is called
> like a million times, and from what I can see at least the first hundred
> or so don't cause a crash.

You might like to take a look at etc/DEBUG, although in your case the
most likely problem is that you haven't updated the marking code
properly so that it knows about your new objects.


        Stefan