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bug#9645: 24.0.50; Assertion failure in Emacs 24 pretest
From: |
John Wiegley |
Subject: |
bug#9645: 24.0.50; Assertion failure in Emacs 24 pretest |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:26:07 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) |
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> You can checkout https://github.com/jwiegley/dot-emacs and then run "make"
>> within the result to approximate what I am doing.
> Few! that's a 2800-line emacs.el plus a bunch of extra packages to go with
> it? That's too much for me to deal with, sorry. Could you perhaps try
> reproducing this in a simpler setup?
I understand. I'll see what I can do.
>> > Also, the line numbers you show in the backtrace differ considerably from
>> > what I see in the pretest sources: e.g., move_it_by_lines there starts at
>> > line 8834, and the only place it can call `abort' is on line 8858:
>>
>> > xassert (it->current_x == 0 && it->hpos == 0);
>>
>> This is the one I saw looking up from the abort.
> But how come the line counts are so different? And why is the version
> number 24.0.50, which is before the pretest was made? Can you please try
> the same with the current trunk? There were quite a few changes lately in
> xdisp.c, and I would not want to waste my time debugging an old problem. I
> hope you understand.
I totally understand. And: AHA, I was using a very old version of Emacs 24.
So reject my bug, and I'll give the latest a try instead.
> Assuming the current code still crashes, I would need a simpler recipe than
> to have to load the whole emacs.el you are using, modify all the file names
> to match my box, downloading and installing all the add-ons you have, etc.
> TIA.
Understood.
Thanks,
John