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On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 07:08, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On HEAD:
> 
> emacs -q --no-site-file
> M-x ielm
> 1 [enter]
> 
> => Args out of range: "1", 7, 1
> 
> Only happens with the first expression evaluated. It is caused by the
> value returned by read-from-string.

Should be fixed now; please let me know if not.

The bug was caused by the order of evaluation of function arguments
inside Fread_from_string, and my code depended on it being
left-to-right.  GCC always uses left-to-right, so I'm assuming this bug
was revealed because you use the Windows compiler.