Subject: bug#37415: Asserting failure setting frame parameters to non-fixnum values in early-init.el

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:32:23 +0200

> If it's fragile, then we must take a look at gui_figure_window_size, I
 > think.  It should handle all those cases which you are afraid of.

What bothers me more is that we base the Windows code on a concept
that it can neither understand nor control.

 > I prefer using the hint flags as the indicator because that explicitly
 > tells us we can use f->top and f->left.

But we do not use them in my_create_window with your patch.  We just
use left and top which are zero when a notation like (- 100) is used.

martin