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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> `sort' modifies its first argument destructively, thus invalidating
> the backtrace.  This generates the same kind of backtrace:
> 
>     (sort '(nil nil nil nil) '<)
> 
> The solution was to add `(delq nil LIST)' in an appropriate place or
> two.

Ah; right.  I've now added it one more place.  :-)

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