GNU bug report logs - #35429
27.0.50; Arbitrary xdisp.c related crashes when working with overlay-using packages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35429: 27.0.50; Arbitrary xdisp.c related crashes when working with overlay-using packages
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:25:52 +0300

> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:12:31 -0400
> Cc: 35429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> (gdb) p w->start
> $16 = XIL(0x89daa95)
> (gdb) xmarker
> $17 = (struct Lisp_Marker *) 0x89daa90
> (gdb) p $->buffer->name_
> $18 = XIL(0x7960234)
> (gdb) xstring
> $19 = (struct Lisp_String *) 0x7960230
> "standard-reading.org"
> (gdb)
> 
> That "standard-reading.org" is the Org file whose ~3000 character snippet that I linked earlier.

So the window-start marker belongs to the wrong buffer.

Was standard-reading.org the buffer displayed in the selected window?
Did you switch buffers right before the crash?
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