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Article #383illegal instruction on DECstation/5000 - mark_object bug?
From: Fred Douglis
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:33
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:33
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In epoch 4.2, running on Ultrix V4.2, I have had epoch die on me several times in less than a week. (Epoch was just installed here; prior to that I used vanilla gnu emacs.) A backtrace from gdb claims that the core file doesn't match. A backtrace from dbx shows hundreds of frames of mark_object, as follows: (dbx) where > 0 abort.abort(0x45d68c, 0x29, 0x10133454, 0x1019ec54, 0x1452cb00) ["../exit.c":80, 0x4b341c] 1 .block207 ["alloc.c":1170, 0x45d704] 2 mark_object(objptr = 0x1052cb24) ["alloc.c":1170, 0x45d704] 3 .block205 ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554] 4 mark_object(objptr = 0x103d4888) ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554] 5 .block205 ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554] 6 mark_object(objptr = 0x103d4194) ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554] 7 .block205 ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554] 8 mark_object(objptr = 0x1013aa78) ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554] 9 .block205 ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554] 10 mark_object(objptr = 0x10150998) ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554] 11 .block206 ["alloc.c":1113, 0x45d5d0] 12 mark_object(objptr = 0x10139d90) ["alloc.c":1113, 0x45d5d0] 13 .block205 ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554] 14 mark_object(objptr = 0x1010e9e4) ["alloc.c":1087, 0x45d554] 15 .block207 ["alloc.c":1140, 0x45d688] 16 mark_object(objptr = 0x1010e0a8) ["alloc.c":1140, 0x45d688] 17 .block207 ["alloc.c":1140, 0x45d688] More (n if no)? ... Any idea what might cause this? Any patches available? Many thanks for suggestions. -- Fred Douglis Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory | Email: douglis@mitl.com 182 Nassau Street | Phone: +1 609 497-4600 Princeton, NJ 08542 USA | Fax: +1 609 497-4013
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Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!mitl.com!douglis From: douglis@MITL.COM (Fred Douglis) Subject: illegal instruction on DECstation/5000 - mark_object bug? Message-ID: <1992Nov16.193322.6348@MITL.COM> Keywords: core dump mark_object Sender: news@MITL.COM Nntp-Posting-Host: chimay.mitl.com Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:33:22 GMT Lines: 38