bug#10164: 24.0.91; Instant crash enabling linum-mode

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
>> Cc: eliz@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:10:47 -0500
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > I'm amazed that this assertion didn't trigger until now.  I guess too
>> > few people compile with asserts.
>> 
>> You might want to add another option:
>> configure --enable-checking=xasserts 
>> 
>> to enable asserts, it's easier to enable checks when one does not have
>> to edit files. 
>
> I thought that's what "configure --enable-asserts" did.  Doesn't it?
> Or is that option inconvenient in some way?

I just didn't know about it...