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bug#28280: Maximally unhelpful diagnostic message.
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#28280: Maximally unhelpful diagnostic message. |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:15:57 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) |
Hello, Glenn.
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 15:20:23 -0400, Glenn Morris wrote:
> 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.
Yes, but that's a separate problem from the essence of the bug report.
Regardless of the lack of progress on bug #18913, the information
provided by an assert being triggered is unhelpful and inadequate.
That aside, I can't see how the two assertions suggested in #18913 could
trigger the message I saw. I'll maybe have a look at the actual patch
sometime when I'm less tired.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).