Subject: Re: bug#17168: 24.3.50; Segfault at mark_object

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:42:22 -0400

> As an alternative, would it make sense to try to understand why the
> problems started when they did?  IOW, how come we never saw this
> until now?

I think it's just luck.  I remember we added the current hack when we
made dolist use an uninterned symbol, and in that case it also took us
a while to bump into the problem and then to track it down.

        Stefan