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>

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From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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 15:43:22 -0400

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 3:39 PM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 3:26 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I am a bit hazy in my memory regarding that .. it's very likely I did
> that. All I can tell is that I was quickly scrolling/switching windows when
> this crash happened.
>

Now in another emacs instance, with beacon enabled, I am frantically
switching and scrolling side by side windows: one having
ascii-art-to-unicode.el and another with that same Org file, and this time,
the crash is not happening :(

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