[slime-devel] Re: Very odd cross-referencing problem.

[Helmut Eller]

* Jonathon McKitrick [2006-10-19 16:52+0200] writes:

> SLIME has been working perfectly for me for some time.  But the
> other day, I encountered some odd behavior.  I hit M-. for
> slime-edit-definition.  The function was a simple one, in another
> file in the project.  But the busy mouse pointer appeared, my
> notebook cooling fan came on, and SLIME ran until memory was
> exhausted about 2 minutes later.  SBCL totally crashed, and dropped
> into it's own debugger.

Are you saying that Emacs crashed too, or just SBCL?

> [...]  
> Once the operation begins to consume CPU and memory, I can
> disconnect within emacs to stop it from totally crashing, then I
> have to start over.

Can you evaluate (swank:find-definitions-for-emacs "<fun-name>") in
the terminal and maybe interrupt it before it crashes and send a
stacktrace?

> I'll be happy to provide any other details.

The last form in the *slime-events* buffer could be interesting.

Helmut.