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2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 322b8271f14..5391cefe876 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2013-07-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ Try to fix FreeBSD bug re multithreaded memory allocation (Bug#14569).
+ * emacs.c (main) [HAVE_PTHREAD && !SYSTEM_MALLOC && !DOUG_LEA_MALLOC]:
+ Clear _malloc_thread_enabled_p at startup. Reported by Ashish SHUKLA in
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-07/msg00088.html>.
+
2013-07-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* sysdep.c (sys_siglist) [HAVE_DECL___SYS_SIGLIST]:
diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
index 08be786de95..bebc5e420ad 100644
--- a/src/emacs.c
+++ b/src/emacs.c
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ extern int malloc_set_state (void*);
dumping. Used to work around a bug in glibc's malloc. */
static bool malloc_using_checking;
#elif defined HAVE_PTHREAD && !defined SYSTEM_MALLOC
+extern int _malloc_thread_enabled_p;
extern void malloc_enable_thread (void);
#endif
@@ -681,6 +682,12 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
stack_base = &dummy;
#endif
+#if defined HAVE_PTHREAD && !defined SYSTEM_MALLOC && !defined DOUG_LEA_MALLOC
+ /* Disable mutexes in gmalloc.c. Otherwise, FreeBSD Emacs recursively
+ loops with pthread_mutex_lock calling calloc and vice versa. */
+ _malloc_thread_enabled_p = 0;
+#endif
+
#ifdef G_SLICE_ALWAYS_MALLOC
/* This is used by the Cygwin build. */
xputenv ("G_SLICE=always-malloc");