[Vm-dev] Event-driven Cog still crashing (more observations)

[Dimitry Golubovsky]

Hi,

Looks like I found the reason why longjmp crashes subsequent GC:

StackEvtInterpreter >> initStackPagesAndInterpret

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	theStackMemory := self
						cCode: 'alloca(stackPagesBytes)'
						inSmalltalk:
							[stackPages := self stackPagesClass new.
							 stackPages initializeWithByteSize: stackPagesBytes for: self].
--------------------------------------------------------------

Of course longjmp discards this allocation. Next time the interpreter
is entered, this stack space will be overwritten. Hence the bizarre
effects.

I haven't tried to work around this; just wandering whether using
malloc instead of alloca is in any way harmful...

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Dimitry Golubovsky

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