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

From: Gerd Möllmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:15:44 +0200

Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]> writes:

> 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?

If you are not trying to dump buffers, I think you won't need overlays.
So, the question is why dump buffers?