bug#9645: 24.0.50; Assertion failure in Emacs 24 pretest

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> You can checkout https://github.com/jwiegley/dot-emacs and then run "make"
>> within the result to approximate what I am doing.

> Few! that's a 2800-line emacs.el plus a bunch of extra packages to go with
> it?  That's too much for me to deal with, sorry.  Could you perhaps try
> reproducing this in a simpler setup?

I understand.  I'll see what I can do.

>> > Also, the line numbers you show in the backtrace differ considerably from
>> > what I see in the pretest sources: e.g., move_it_by_lines there starts at
>> > line 8834, and the only place it can call `abort' is on line 8858:
>> 
>> >       xassert (it->current_x == 0 && it->hpos == 0);
>> 
>> This is the one I saw looking up from the abort.

> But how come the line counts are so different?  And why is the version
> number 24.0.50, which is before the pretest was made?  Can you please try
> the same with the current trunk?  There were quite a few changes lately in
> xdisp.c, and I would not want to waste my time debugging an old problem.  I
> hope you understand.

I totally understand.  And: AHA, I was using a very old version of Emacs 24.
So reject my bug, and I'll give the latest a try instead.

> Assuming the current code still crashes, I would need a simpler recipe than
> to have to load the whole emacs.el you are using, modify all the file names
> to match my box, downloading and installing all the add-ons you have, etc.
> TIA.

Understood.

Thanks,
  John