Re: assertion failure

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From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 16 1999 - 21:54:41 EST


>
> On Feb 16, 1999, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> wrote:
>
> > Just got this with sources fresh as of Tue Feb 16 17:02:15 PST 1999:
> > assertion "!INTS_DISABLED()" failed: file "exception.c", line 167
>
> On what plaform is that? I sometimes get this on SunOS4...
>

The assertion failure simply says that a seg fault occurred while we're
in a critical section where ints are disabled.
Instead of ignoring that and pretending that we could map this to a
nullpointer exception, (which wouldn't make any sense), I decided that
we should just bail in this case.

The underlying reason, of course, is the memory corruption that the
collector hit. You should try -vmdebug GCDIAG.

        - Godmar


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