Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:08:11 -0400

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  > > That value of size was used to calculate from_end and to_end.

  > Look like bogus values.

  > Very strange.

  > Does anyone have any idea how this could happen?

It could be a random hardware failure.
Such things have happened.

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