Re: garbage collector infloop in 21.4.9 and 21.5beta4 on MacOS 10.2

Skip> When I use VM to visit one specific mailbox the garbage Skip> collector gets into an infinite loop. I can visit, edit and Skip> save many other mailboxes. Only this one mailbox exhibits Skip> this problem (so far). I don't see an infloop, just a very deep recursion. It's at least theoretically possible possible that it would go that deep because of the way GC's mark algorithm is implemented. Do you ever get a crash? How big is your stack? -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py