Bug#522836: zile: Assertion crash in auto-fill-mode
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Tim wrote: Oh, please take no offense, as none was intended. I'm not even sure what bug reports I might have submitted on the issue in the past, and if I did, it probably didn't have enough detail. It's just one of those bugs that only pops up right in the middle of something and I never find the time to come back and look into it. Not at all, just wanted to reassure you that I'm on the case. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur (Anon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#522836: zile: Assertion crash in auto-fill-mode
Package: zile Version: 2.3.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss This bug has been in zile a *long* time, but I have never managed to either write a detailed enough bug report or get anyone to care. Previously this crash was a segfault... I guess we're making progress now that it's an assert() failure... =P Anyway, sometimes when zile is wrapping a line for me in auto-fill-mode it crashes. The assertion failure in the current version is: zile: astr.c:101: astr_nreplace_cstr: Assertion `pos = as-len' failed. Aborted This typically occurs when I'm wrapping a long line where I have to hit the space bar several times in order to get it all wrapped, leaving a long tail of spaces on the line. (It would be nice if auto-fill-mode behaved more like emacs' where it wraps the entire line in one go.) In order to reproduce, see the test.txt and .zile files which I will attach shortly. Once you have the .zile in place, run `zile test.txt' and then switch into auto-fill-mode by typing: M-x auto-fill-mode Next, go to the end of the long line (C-e) and start hitting space bar. The assertion fails for me after hitting space 3 times. I'm guessing this is some kind of integer overflow/underflow but I really have no idea. I haven't looked at the code. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages zile depends on: ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20090321-1 shared libraries for terminal hand zile recommends no packages. zile suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#522836: zile: Assertion crash in auto-fill-mode
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Tim wrote: This bug has been in zile a *long* time, but I have never managed to either write a detailed enough bug report or get anyone to care. My dear sir, I'm not sure whether I've ever had a bug report from you, but I certainly *do* care, and have made several attempts over the years to fix paragraph filling. I'm sorry it's still causing grief... Thanks very much for your detailed bug report, which enabled me to reproduce the bug. I've committed a fix to git, and will release 2.3.5 shortly. I can't promise this is the last bug in line wrapping; this one was specific to lines containing multiple spaces, as the call to delete-horizontal-space that line wrapping makes was not taken into account in subsequent positioning of point. Fortunately (to use a marker rather than making incorrect calculations) simplifies the code, so at least there's less to debug next time! -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ sane, a. having tragedy in the heart and comedy in the head (Chesterton) Listening to: 'To every thing there is a season' from 'Mass of the Children and other sacred music' (The Cambridge Singers / John Rutter) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#522836: zile: Assertion crash in auto-fill-mode
This bug has been in zile a *long* time, but I have never managed to either write a detailed enough bug report or get anyone to care. My dear sir, I'm not sure whether I've ever had a bug report from you, but I certainly *do* care, and have made several attempts over the years to fix paragraph filling. I'm sorry it's still causing grief... Oh, please take no offense, as none was intended. I'm not even sure what bug reports I might have submitted on the issue in the past, and if I did, it probably didn't have enough detail. It's just one of those bugs that only pops up right in the middle of something and I never find the time to come back and look into it. Thanks very much for your detailed bug report, which enabled me to reproduce the bug. I've committed a fix to git, and will release 2.3.5 shortly. I can't promise this is the last bug in line wrapping; this one was specific to lines containing multiple spaces, as the call to delete-horizontal-space that line wrapping makes was not taken into account in subsequent positioning of point. Fortunately (to use a marker rather than making incorrect calculations) simplifies the code, so at least there's less to debug next time! Great, I'm glad to hear it. Thanks for your very quick response and your ongoing hard work on zile. Best regards, tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
