Re: address@hidden: redisplay abort if GLYPH_DEBUG turned on]

[Kim F. Storm]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>>> There are other places which set stop_charpos to 0, so
>>> there is IT_CHARPOS <= stop_charpos is not an invariant.
>>>
>>> So Miles' change to the xassert is ok.  But the comment need to be modified 
>>> as well. 
>>
>> The thing that makes me nervous is that there seem to also be other
>> similar xasserts, e.g. [xdisp.c:2727]:
>>
>>   xassert (STRINGP (it->string)
>>         || (it->stop_charpos >= BEGV
>>             && it->stop_charpos >= IT_CHARPOS (*it)));
>>
>> and [xdisp.c:4068]:
>>
>>       xassert (it->stop_charpos >= BEGV
>>             && it->stop_charpos <= it->end_charpos);
>>
>> implying that there _are_ some sorts of rules for stop_charpos, but I
>> have no idea what they are.  [I haven't had any crashes involving these
>> other xasserts.]
>
> You may be right -- perhaps there is a different way to fix the original
> problem...   I will look into it.

I just installed a different fix for the original problem.
So stop_charpos is no longer set to 0 outside strings.

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