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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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    I think these changes are very likely to be 100% correct, as not having
    them fails to bootstrap too many times.

That does not prove they are correct--it only proves they fixed a real
problem.  It remains possible that they also cause a bug in some
less-frequent case.

The real reason we know these changes are not responsible for these
crashes is that the crashes happened before these changes were made.