Subject: bug#50096: args-out-of-range in redisplay_internal

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 22:00:29 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:51:36 +0300
> 
> > So we are in the wrong (empty) buffer?  Or did someone delete the
> > buffer's text under our feet?  What does this show:
> >
> >   (gdb) p object->name_
> >   (gdb) xstring
> >   (gdb) p current_buffer->name_
> >   (gdb) xstring
> 
> (gdb) p XBUFFER (object)->name_
> $7 = XIL(0x7f015341fb84)
> (gdb) xstring
> $8 = (struct Lisp_String *) 0x7f015341fb80
> " *Minibuf-0*"
> (gdb) p current_buffer->name_
> $9 = XIL(0x7f015341fb84)
> (gdb) xstring
> $10 = (struct Lisp_String *) 0x7f015341fb80
> " *Minibuf-0*"

Hm... something else is at work here.

> PS: Some commit between e2eb58c487 and 31ab12e261 broke that,
> but maybe this is not important because these commits
> just changed the length of the git command by adding ":(literal)",
> and length change maybe exposed some other problem.

You are saying that if you remove the ":(literal)" part without
changing anything else, the problem goes away?