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    Somehow in an invocation of Emacs, the symbol nil became bound to a
    value that prints as this:

      (#<save_value ptr=0x085526f0 int=0> 96536 96288)

Yowch!

There are not many places in Emacs that make a save-value.
Perhaps you can reconstruct the C-level value that was saved
by looking at that data, and then perhaps you can figure out
where the save-value was actually made.

It is possible that this is a bug already fixed, as someone else
pointed out; but it's also possible that this bug is just rare.
So I think a little more investigation would be worth doing
if you want to.