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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: 20.1-b6: assertion failed, file extents.c, line 1588
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Steven L Baur writes:
 > Kyle Jones writes:
 > 
 > > This is a rather alarming crash.  Has the extents code been
 > > modified recently?
 > 
 > None since 20.1-b2.  The third previous edit was to fix the crash you
 > reported with duplicable, replicating extents (prior to 20.0final).
 > The second previous edit was a Bill Perry edit to remove some code
 > that enabled a bomb with a text property of Qnil (prior to 20.1-b1).
 > The previous edit (prior to 20.1-b2) was to remove the behavior of
 > allowing any editing of read-only extents.

Evidence suggests that this crash is related to the new time.el
somehow.  The only place I can find set-extent-parent being
called is in the redisplay code related to the modeline.  And
guess what code has been fiddling with the modeline recently.

