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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 28280@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28280: Maximally unhelpful diagnostic message.
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:20:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fmh8wqdvuw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170829184140.GA4339@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:41:40 +0000")

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

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

A few seconds grep suggests this is due to the code in newline, added ~
3 years ago in 62ee8b1 ("Add assertions to try and help catch bug#18913").
The complete lack of progress in that report since then suggests it may
be time to remove/downgrade those assertions.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-29 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-29 18:41 bug#28280: Maximally unhelpful diagnostic message Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-29 19:20 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
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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