bug#16553: 24.3.50; `file-truename' returns a cons? (wrong-type-argument stringp (...))

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> Isn't it possible that you have that weird cons cell in your
>> load-history?  help-fns--autoloaded-p does this:
>> 
>>     (while (and load-hist (not found))
>>       (and (caar load-hist)
>>         (equal (file-name-sans-extension (caar load-hist)) file)
>> 
>> So if some element in load-history is that cons cell, this code
>> will call file-name-sans-extension on that cons cell.
>
> Yes.  Bravo and thank you once again, Eli.  I was wondering about
> that cons.  I think you nailed it.  (That cons would not be an
> entry, however, but the car of an entry, for the error to occur.)

This doesn't seem likely to be an Emacs bug.  Closing, but please reopen
if it turns out to still be a problem.

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