GNU bug report logs - #13664
24.3.50; assertion failed: ZV != ZV_BYTE || charpos == bytepos" alloc.c:6556

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andy Moreton <amoreton <at> solarflare.com>

Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 13667, 13669

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 13664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Andy Moreton <amoreton <at> solarflare.com>, 13664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13664: 24.3.50;	assertion failed: ZV != ZV_BYTE || charpos
	== bytepos" alloc.c:6556
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:34:02 +0000

On 09/02/2013 18:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 17:54:21 +0000
>> From: Andy Moreton <amoreton <at> solarflare.com>
> Some snafu with characters vs byte counts in a unibyte buffer.  It dies
> here:
>
>    /* In a single-byte buffer, the two positions must be equal.  */
>    eassert (ZV != ZV_BYTE || charpos == bytepos);
>
> If you revert the changes to syntax.c in revision 111693, does the
> problem go away?

Thanks Eli - the assert does not fire after reverting that change (just 
syntax.c, not the whole changeset).

    AndyM
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