[Sbcl-devel] memory corruption in 0.8.1.43?

[William H. N. <wil...@ai...>]

I have now gotten failures like
  ; compiling top level form: 
  fatal error encountered in SBCL pid 6844:
  GC invariant lost, file "gc-common.c", line 375
  There's no LDB in this build; exiting.
from two recent versions of SBCL (0.8.1.43 on one machine, .39-I-think
on the other) compiling some of my application code. The same
application code builds and runs fine on 0.8.1.29.

0.8.1.43 has just finished hosting its own make.sh, so evidently not
just any compilation suffices to cause the crash.

I will probably get around to bisection search for a useful test case
sometime when I'm feeling too groggy for regular programming, likely
sometime this weekend. Meanwhile, even without a proper test case I
thought it might be useful to mention it here, in case someone else
notices similar symptoms and wonders whether it's a problem on their
machine or something in SBCL which should be reported here.

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