Subject: Re: bug#66743: 30.0.50; Crash when dumping reftex

From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:58:07 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> The code which aborts:
>
>   if (!itree_empty_p (buffer->overlays))
>     /* We haven't implemented the code to dump overlays.  */  <<<<<<<<<<
>     emacs_abort ();
>
> Any questions?

What is the difficulty dumping overlays?
And, if it is hard, may we work around this by pdumper binding some flag
to non-nil and reftex.el hiding the overlay initialization code behind
an `if'?

At minimum, it would be helpful to print a message instead of crashing
into the user's face.

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