Re: Need help finding heap corruption bug

[Neil Jerram]

"Pat Lasswell" <address@hidden> writes:

> I have two questions.  Is there something intrinsically wrong with with 
> setting
> the current module to the one on which I am actively working and then just
> reloading that file rather than the entire suite? 

No.

>
> My second question is this: given that the answer to 1) is no, how do I track
> this pest down?

Based on the other messages in this thread, it doesn't sound like
there's an obvious overall problem with Guile on MacOS.  It may still
be MacOS-specific, though.  Do you know whether the same steps cause
problems on Linux?

>  Placing an undefined identifier, say 'x', at various points in
> one of the modules will sometimes produce the appropriate warning, sometimes
> produce a segfault, other times a bus error or illegal instruction or even an
> abort during gc.  I have run attached to gdb, but I get a deep stack (131
> frames) ending with, e.g.
>
> #0  scm_gc_sweep () at ../../../src/guile-1.6.8/libguile/gc.c:1729
> #1  0x0021f573 in scm_igc (what=0x26c720 "cells") at ../../../src/guile-1.6.8/
> libguile/gc.c:1161
> #2  0x0021fa83 in scm_gc_for_newcell (master=0x273440, freelist=0x273438) at 
> ..
> /../../src/guile- 1.6.8/libguile/gc.c:985
> #3  0x00238aef in scm_cons (x=0x6826c0, y=0x2974) at ../../../src/guile-1.6.8/
> libguile/pairs.c:84
> #4  0x00216b87 in scm_deval (x=0xc3028, env=0x682480) at ../../../src/
> guile-1.6.8/libguile/eval.c:2835
> #5  0x00219af5 in scm_deval (x=0xc3030, env=0x682480) at ../../../src/
> guile-1.6.8/libguile/eval.c:2819
>
> Are there guile primitives to verify the heap?

Apart from (gc), no. :-)

The only approach I can think of right now is to look at the detail of
why scm_gc_sweep is aborting and work back from there.  Anyone have
any other ideas?

Regards,
     Neil