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RE: SIGSEGV in GC_mark_from




On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> I assume this is the trunk?

Yes.

> You might check that current_p points to an object which is properly
> described, i.e. has a pointer to a proper vtable.

The first word at current_p points to another heap object.  It's not yet
clear to me whether current_p is invalid or it was somehow overwritten.

> Failing that, probably the only real way to debug this is to insert code
> that looks for absurd descriptors at various places, i.e. anything huge with
> the 4 low order bits zero.  I would start by inserting such a test around
> line 622.

That helps, thanks.

Jeff


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