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Re: nil became bound to (#<save_value ptr=0x085526f0 int=0> 96536 96288)
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: nil became bound to (#<save_value ptr=0x085526f0 int=0> 96536 96288) |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:20:24 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Joe Wells <address@hidden> writes:
> It happened again! This is the second time it has ever happened to
> me.
>
> This time the value of nil printed like this:
>
> (#<save_value ptr=0x08554f28 int=0>)
>
> I think this tends to cast doubt on Eli's idea that it might be a
> faulty memory chip, as that would not tend to cause such a similar
> problem without causing lots of other problems.
Probably the easiest way to find the bug is to set a watchpoint on Qnil.
That value should not ever change during runtime of Emacs (temacs
initializes it once in init_obarray). Another place to watch is the hash
entry of the symbol nil in Vobarray.
Andreas.
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