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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, 22356@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#22356: 25.0.50; emacs-25 very crashy with ivy-mode
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:03:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83twmdet8o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <569A0BED.4080000@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Sat, 16 Jan 2016 10:22:53 +0100)

> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 10:22:53 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: 22356@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  > We weren't assigning space for glyphs of the margins in the
>  > mini-window.  Why? because of a single typo (or thinko?) more than 2
>  > years ago!  That typo made us think the mini-window has a very large
>  > total width in column units:
>  >
>  >    emacs -Q
>  >    M-: (window-total-width (minibuffer-window)) RET
>  >      => 672
>  >
>  > That preposterous value then defeated the logic in the display engine
>  > which decides how many glyphs are needed for displaying stuff in the
>  > margin, when margins are turned on in a window: that logic decided the
>  > correct number was zero.  And from there it's a quick path to writing
>  > beyond the allocated memory.
> 
> Thanks for fixing my silly oversight.

Stuff happens ;-)

> margin_glyphs_to_reserve is the only client of the total_cols slot
> of the minibuffer window, so there's no wonder that this bug
> remained undetected for such a long time.

margin_glyphs_to_reserve also had a flaw: it could return zero for
positive values of the MARGIN argument, which is clearly wrong.  I
fixed that with a follow-up patch, so now it always returns at least 1
column when the margin is non-zero.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-16 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-12 12:59 bug#22356: 25.0.50; emacs-25 very crashy with ivy-mode Dmitry Gutov
     [not found] ` <handler.22356.B.145260358930042.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-01-12 13:04   ` bug#22356: Acknowledgement (25.0.50; emacs-25 very crashy with ivy-mode) Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-12 16:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-12 16:11       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-12 18:25         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-12 14:26 ` bug#22356: 25.0.50; emacs-25 very crashy with ivy-mode Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-12 16:05   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-12 16:48     ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-12 18:33       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-12 22:27         ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-13  0:21           ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-13  1:10             ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-01-13  1:15               ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-01-13  1:22                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-13  1:36                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-01-15 15:23                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-16  9:22                       ` martin rudalics
2016-01-16 10:03                         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-01-15 15:24                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-15 16:06                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-01-15 16:19                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-15 22:47                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-16  6:48                         ` Eli Zaretskii

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