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28.0.50 (but also earlier versions); etags asserion error (with too many files?)

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Gregor Zattler <telegraph <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 41465 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41465: 28.0.50 (but also earlier versions); etags asserion error (with too many files?)
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 17:18:07 +0300

Hi Gregor,

Please keep the bug email in Cc.

On 24.05.2020 09:58, Gregor Zattler wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> * Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> [2020-05-24; 04:43]:
>> Thanks you for that addition.
>>
>> Indeed, when I configure Emacs with
>>
>>     CFLAGS='-g -O2' --enable-checking
>>
>> etags does abort with assertion errors you described.
> 
> arghs, my statement "also happens with the binary from
> debian buster 10.4" was wrong.  I tested with /usr/bin/etags
> but forgot I that wrestled my emacs-27 build into the
> alternatives system of debian.
> 
> I tested again with
> 
> 0 (master *) grfz <at> no:~$ /usr/bin/etags.emacs ~/src/linux//include/net/mac80211.h
> 0 (master *) grfz <at> no:~$ /usr/bin/etags.emacs ~/src/linux/sound/soc/codecs/cs43130.c
> 
> and now there are no assertion errors with these files.

Makes sense.

> But shouldn't there also be no assertion errors with
> --enable-checking ?

There shouldn't be.

So it's a valuable bug report, just less urgent than we might have 
decided previously.

I'll let our developers who know etags better handle it from here.

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