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Subject: Re: Error with -O3 but not -O2: "Wrong type argument: listp".
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"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> What makes this hard is that the bug may not be in the Emacs sources.
> It could be that some code was miscompiled.

What should be done if it is a compiler bug?  Detect the gcc version
and avoid the -O3 (or use -fno-inline-functions)?  Modify the Emacs
source to work around the bug?