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Fatal error if you eval: ((lambda (1) nil) nil)

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From: Mitchell N. Perilstein
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 1990 02:05
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SUMMARY
Reproducible fatal error when certain elisp is evaluated.
Effects vary slightly on machines tested, but fatal on all.
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EFFECTS

DEC-3100 Ultrix Worksystem V2.0 (Rev. 7)
GNU Emacs 18.55.1 of Sat Oct  7 1989 on curie (berkeley-unix)
...gives "Fatal error (10)." 
   then  "pid 4495 (xemacs) was killed on unaligned access, at pc 0x43beac"

VAX-VMS 5.1-1
GNU Emacs 18.53.3 of Thu Jun 22 1989 on _CSD (vax-vms)
...gives "Fatal error (10)." 
   then various low-level vms dump info.

Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 3.5
GNU Emacs 18.55.1 of Sat Oct  7 1989 on alpha (berkeley-unix)
... gives "Segmentation fault (core dumped).
    (no Fatal error message appears)
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TO REPRODUCE

1. Start with "emacs -q".

2. Type one of the following Evil lisp expressions into *scratch* buffer
   and press `LFD' after it. Also occurs when entered using `Meta-ESC'
   in the minibuffer. Also, `Meta-X eval-current-buffer' will die. 

3. Evil expression A:

	((lambda (1) nil) nil)

   Evil expression B: (accepts defun, dies when called thus)

	(defun foo (1) nil)	
	==>foo

	(foo nil)

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Please let me know if you can't observe this.

Mitchell N. Perilstein           case western    Crawford Hall/Rm 215
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From: mitch@GAMOW.CES.CWRU.EDU (Mitchell N. Perilstein)
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Subject: Fatal error if you eval: ((lambda (1) nil) nil)
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Date: 16 Jun 90 02:05:41 GMT
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Posted: Sat Jun 16 03:05:41 1990