Subject: Re: bug#25246: 25.1.90; Buffer not responsible with overlay at buffer end.

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:01:56 -0500

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> It should be enough to provide some text to serve as buffer contents,
> and a Lisp function to put the overlay on that text, such that Emacs
> stops responding.

I think the OP already provided those.  Here's some elisp code to
reproduce the problem based on the description (some adjustment may be
needed depending on display width):