Run this shell command in Emacs source tree (the file contents.c was generated with clang-format): emacs -Q src/dispnew.c contents.c --eval '(with-current-buffer "dispnew.c" (replace-buffer-contents "contents.c"))' Backtrace (full backtrace in attachment): Thread 1 "emacs" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00000000005b34cb in find_interval (tree=0x0, position=position@entry=-12) at ../../src/intervals.c:616 616 if (relative_position < LEFT_TOTAL_LENGTH (tree)) #0 0x00000000005b34cb in find_interval (tree=0x0, position=position@entry=-12) at ../../src/intervals.c:616 relative_position = -13 #1 0x00000000005b4dfd in set_point_both (charpos=-12, bytepos=-12) at ../../src/intervals.c:1864 to = from = toprev = fromprev = buffer_point = old_position = 160 backwards = true original_position = #2 0x00000000005b5586 in set_point (charpos=) at ../../src/intervals.c:1754 No locals. #3 0x000000000055c40d in Freplace_buffer_contents (source=0x184d9a4) at ../../src/editfns.c:3267 end_a = end_b = beg_b = a = source_buffer = min_a = 1 min_b = 1 size_a = a_empty = b_empty = false diags = buffer = sa_avail = sa_must_free = del_bytes = ins_bytes = ctx = {buffer_a = 0x1727fa0, buffer_b = 0x177d180, deletions = 0x184db90 "\254^", insertions = 0x1853ac0 "B\327\v", fdiag = 0x7fffe336f158, bdiag = 0x7fffe36828e8, too_expensive = 1000000} i = j = Lisp backtrace: "replace-buffer-contents" (0xffffc9f0) "save-current-buffer" (0xffffcad8) "with-current-buffer" (0xffffcb98) "eval" (0xffffcd28) "command-line-1" (0xffffd340) "command-line" (0xffffdb48) "normal-top-level" (0xffffde60) In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2018-06-17 built on mkc Repository revision: fa9679ca488a17b2b6b9f31299d69c190aa86642 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11804000 System Description: Linux Mint 18.2 Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Configured using: 'configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid' Configured features: XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11 THREADS LIBSYSTEMD LCMS2 Important settings: value of $LC_MONETARY: pl_PL.UTF-8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: pl_PL.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader cl-loaddefs cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils elec-pair time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 94745 9710) (symbols 48 20133 1) (miscs 40 35 86) (strings 32 28988 1919) (string-bytes 1 755246) (vectors 16 14157) (vector-slots 8 503184 11636) (floats 8 50 67) (intervals 56 232 0) (buffers 992 11) (heap 1024 14329 1068))