GNU bug report logs - #18438
24.4.50; assertion failed in bidi.c

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: aidalgol <at> amuri.net

Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:52:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 17817

Found in versions 24.3.91, 24.4.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: 18438 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, aidalgol <at> amuri.net
Subject: bug#18438: 24.4.50; assertion failed in bidi.c
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:37:00 +0200
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:15:41 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> On 10/29/2014 12:30 AM, aidalgol <at> amuri.net wrote:
> > I have had no Emacs crashes since updating to this Cygwin version two days ago
> > (with the same amount of use per day), so this bug seems to have been the
> > cause.  Let's see if the other users experiencing the bogus assertions stop
> > getting them after this fix makes it into the stable release.
> 
> Jon (bug#18769) has already reported on the Cygwin list that he is no longer 
> getting bogus assertion failures 
> (https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-10/msg00485.html).  So I'm optimistic.

So am I, to a degree.

> Eli, thanks very much for all your help!

You are welcome.  But the real kudos go to those who found and fixed
the root cause of the problem.




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