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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 4534@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4534: assertion failure at window.c:grow_mini_window
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:02:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0909251102x296745d9k2f22f3eab49bb1a8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvab0km26f.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 00:03, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> IIUC, the bug triggered an assertion failure.

Yes.

  xassert (delta >= 0);

at window.c:4637

> Most Emacs users run
> without assertion checking, so that could explain the lack of
> ealier reports (many assertion failures don't actually cause
> a subsequent crash, they may not even cause a noticeable misbehavior in
> some cases).

IMO, assertion checking should be enabled by default when compiling
for debug. I use it continuously (on both debug and optimized builds)
and Emacs is not noticeably slower; at least, not on the setups I've
tried it.

    Juanma





  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-25 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <f7ccd24b0910260305i10204d17hbdbfe72251d740f1@mail.gmail.com>
2009-09-23  3:02 ` bug#4534: assertion failure at window.c:grow_mini_window Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-23  7:28   ` martin rudalics
2009-09-23  9:50     ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-23 10:51       ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-23 12:21         ` martin rudalics
2009-09-23 13:42           ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-24  6:49             ` martin rudalics
2009-09-23 12:21       ` martin rudalics
2009-09-23 13:41         ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-24  6:49           ` martin rudalics
2009-09-24 12:58             ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-24 15:32               ` martin rudalics
2009-09-24 15:53                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-24 16:10                   ` martin rudalics
2009-09-24 16:22                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-24 17:35                       ` martin rudalics
2009-09-24 17:45                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-24 22:03                         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-25 18:02                           ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2009-10-16  8:32                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-24 15:37                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-24 17:36                   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-25  8:35               ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 11:30                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-25 13:14                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 14:08                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-26 10:10   ` bug#4534: marked as done (assertion failure at window.c:grow_mini_window) Emacs bug Tracking System

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