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Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7
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Peter Brett |
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Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7 |
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Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:52:41 +0000 |
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Peter TB Brett <address@hidden> writes:
> Peter TB Brett <address@hidden> writes:
>> I'd really appreciate any suggestions that anyone might be able to give
>> me on figuring out how I've managed to break things. At the moment, I'm
>> at a complete loss.
>
> So far, as far as I can tell the problem is due to freelist corruption
> in the garbage collector, and I'm not sufficiently au fait with Guile
> internals to be able to diagnose what's going on. Is this a known
> issue?
So it turned out to be a stupid logic error in some weak ref management
code that I'd written. Although in the process of finding it I've
learnt a lot about Guile internals, so it wasn't a complete write-off of
my time.
Note to self: bugs can lie in wait for you for a long time...
Thanks to all who provided debugging tips -- I'll keep them in mind for
the future.
Peter
--
Peter Brett <address@hidden>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre
- Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7, Peter TB Brett, 2010/11/10
- Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7, Peter TB Brett, 2010/11/10
- Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7,
Peter Brett <=
- Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2010/11/11
- Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7, Peter Brett, 2010/11/11
- Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7, Neil Jerram, 2010/11/28
- Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7, Linas Vepstas, 2010/11/28
- Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7, Peter TB Brett, 2010/11/30
- Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7, Peter TB Brett, 2010/11/30
Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7, rixed, 2010/11/11
Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7, Neil Jerram, 2010/11/11
Re: Help needed debugging segfault with Guile 1.8.7, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/11/11