GNU bug report logs - #4534
assertion failure at window.c:grow_mini_window

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:10:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #115 received at 4534 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 4534 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#4534: assertion failure at window.c:grow_mini_window
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:03:55 -0400

> Not really.  Exactly 10 years now that Gerd checked in grow_mini_window
> and shrink_mini_window and apparently this bug has never been triggered
> in all that time.

IIUC, the bug triggered an assertion failure.  Most Emacs users run
without assertion checking, so that could explain the lack of
ealier reports (many assertion failures don't actually cause
a subsequent crash, they may not even cause a noticeable misbehavior in
some cases).


        Stefan
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