Subject: bug#13062: 24.3.50; emacs_backtrace.txt

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:10:36 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:02:03 -0500
> 
> PS IIUC These binaries are intended for non-technical users (who can't
> build Emacs). Is it useful for them to be compiled with assertion
> checking? It just seems to lead to lots of crashes that the users
> can't diagnose.

I think assertions help _us_ diagnose problems, because they trigger
earlier than a crash that follows, and pinpoint the root cause better.