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Subject: Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts
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    The core dumps were not mentioned in the documentation, so I doubt
    that some code was relying on that.  OTOH, it's quite possible that
    some code _does_ rely on the fact that it never threw an error.

To signal an error in a kind of case which formerly could sometimes
crash does not seem like a problem to me.