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author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-09-04 11:29:04 -0700 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-09-04 11:29:04 -0700 |
commit | cf29dd84d205e1c78fed5d1ea0006a382658598c (patch) | |
tree | 7e6806fdd94ef53cda78db6b29a4df0276408eb4 /doc/emacs/trouble.texi | |
parent | 972debf2e7381b4fd2c70f9c1fd585d8bd137917 (diff) | |
download | emacs-cf29dd84d205e1c78fed5d1ea0006a382658598c.tar.gz |
Give more-useful info on a fatal error (Bug#12328).
* doc/emacs/trouble.texi (Crashing): New section, documenting this.
* etc/NEWS: Document the change.
* src/alloc.c [ENABLE_CHECKING]: Do not include <execinfo.h>.
(die) [ENABLE_CHECKING]: Call fatal_error_backtrace instead
of doing the work ourselves.
* src/emacs.c (fatal_error_signal): Let fatal_error_backtrace
do most of the work.
(fatal_error_backtrace): New function, taken from the guts
of the old fatal_error_signal, but with a new option to output
a backtrace.
(shut_down_emacs) [!DOS_NT]: Use strsignal to give more-useful
info about the signal than just its number.
* src/lisp.h (fatal_error_backtrace, emacs_backtrace): New decls.
* src/sysdep.c: Include <execinfo.h>
(emacs_backtrace): New function, taken partly from the previous
code of the 'die' function.
(emacs_abort): Call fatal_error_backtrace rather than abort.
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/trouble.texi b/doc/emacs/trouble.texi index 025185c583f..1806339e45d 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/trouble.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/trouble.texi @@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ Emacs. * Screen Garbled:: Garbage on the screen. * Text Garbled:: Garbage in the text. * Memory Full:: How to cope when you run out of memory. +* Crashing:: What Emacs does when it crashes. * After a Crash:: Recovering editing in an Emacs session that crashed. * Emergency Escape:: What to do if Emacs stops responding. @end menu @@ -277,6 +278,44 @@ editing in the same Emacs session. out of memory, because the buffer menu needs a fair amount of memory itself, and the reserve supply may not be enough. +@node Crashing +@subsection When Emacs Crashes + + Emacs is not supposed to crash, but if it does, before it exits it +reports some information about the crash to the standard error stream +@code{stderr}. This report may be useful to someone who later debugs +the same version of Emacs on the same platform. The format of this +report depends on the platform, and some platforms support backtraces. +Here is an example, generated on x86-64 GNU/Linux with version 2.15 of +the GNU C Library: + +@example +Fatal error 11: Segmentation fault +Backtrace: +emacs[0x5094e4] +emacs[0x4ed3e6] +emacs[0x4ed504] +/lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x375220efe0] +/lib64/libpthread.so.0(read+0xe)[0x375220e08e] +emacs[0x509af6] +emacs[0x5acc26] +emacs[0x5adbfb] +emacs[0x56566b] +emacs[0x59bac3] +emacs[0x565151] +... +@end example + +@noindent +The number @samp{11} is the system signal number that corresponds to +the problem, a segmentation fault here. The hexadecimal program +addresses can be useful in debugging sessions. For example, the GDB +command @samp{list *0x509af6} prints the source-code lines +corresponding to the @samp{emacs[0x509af6]} entry in the backtrace. + +The three dots at the end indicate that Emacs suppressed further +backtrace entries, in the interest of brevity. + @node After a Crash @subsection Recovery After a Crash |