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* bug#28280: Maximally unhelpful diagnostic message.
@ 2017-08-29 18:41 Alan Mackenzie
  2017-08-29 19:20 ` Glenn Morris
  2017-09-18  5:35 ` Paul Eggert
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Alan Mackenzie @ 2017-08-29 18:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 28280

Hello, Emacs.

In GNU Emacs 25.2.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.16)
of 2017-08-15 built on ACM
Configured using:
  'configure --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no --with-gpm'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2
FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11


I was just debugging some code when I was presented with the diagnostic:

    Assertion failed: (eq 10 (char-before))

.  Just that.  Nothing else.  No backtrace, no context, no nothing.
This is not helpful.

I request that consideration be given to providing one or more of these
details when assertion code triggers.

Thanks!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).





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2017-08-29 18:41 bug#28280: Maximally unhelpful diagnostic message Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-29 19:20 ` Glenn Morris
2017-08-29 19:32   ` John Wiegley
2017-08-29 20:15   ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-30 12:17     ` npostavs
2020-08-24 13:59       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-11  2:08         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-08-30 19:51     ` Glenn Morris
2017-08-31 21:11       ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-18  5:35 ` Paul Eggert

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