23.0.50; cl-assertion-failed when saving abbrev file

[Eric Hanchrow]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I did M-x edit-abbrevs RET, and (possibly; can't remember) made some
changes in my abbrevs table; I then hit C-c C-c to save it, and got 

    Debugger entered--Lisp error: (cl-assertion-failed sym)
      signal(cl-assertion-failed (sym))
      clear-abbrev-table([0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...])
      kill-all-abbrevs()
      define-abbrevs(t)
      edit-abbrevs-redefine()
      edit-abbrevs-redefine-and-save()
      call-interactively(edit-abbrevs-redefine-and-save nil nil)

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Here's the abbrev table, as a compressed attachment (it's pretty big):

abbrevs.gz
Description: abbrevs

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In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2008-01-07 on debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70000000
configured using `configure  '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--with-xpm=no' 
'--with-jpeg=no' '--with-gif=no' '--with-tiff=no' '--with-xft' '--with-gtk' 
'--enable-font-backend''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Debugger

Minor modes in effect:
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
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  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
o <switch-frame> C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n M-w C-x o C-n 
C-n C-n C-y C-x C-x C-o C-q C-l <switch-frame> n <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> n <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> p <switch-frame> <switch-frame> b n 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
b n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> b n <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> b n b n b n b n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
b n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> b n b p <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> u <switch-frame> C-x o C-x u <switch-frame> 
n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> b n <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> n q y C-x k <return> C-x o C-x C-s C-x 
o C-x b s h e <return> r m SPC ~ / p a s <tab> s <tab> 
<return> M-p <tab> <return> C-x 0 C-x k <return> C-x 
b g r o <return> q y <help-echo> M-x e m a c s - v 
e r <tab> <return> s v n SPC u p SPC ~ <return> M-x 
b y t e - r <tab> <return> ~ / p s <tab> <return> M-x 
l o a d - f <tab> <return> M-p p s <tab> c <return> 
M-x s v n - s t <tab> <return> ~ / <return> _ ? C-n 
<return> C-x v = M-x o c c u r <return> M-p ^ \ + . 
* SPC n i l SPC 0 ) $ <return> C-x 0 <help-echo> C-v 
M-v C-x b <return> C-x k <return> C-x b <return> C-s 
" h a g g e d C-a M-x e d i t - a b b <tab> <return> 
C-s C-s C-a C-k C-x C-o C-c C-c M-x t o g g l e - d 
e <tab> e <tab> <return> C-c C-c M-x r e p o e <backspace> 
r t - e m <tab> b <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Done (Total of 1 file compiled)
Loading /home/erich/psvn/psvn.elc...done
Finding changes in /home/erich/.abbrev_defs...
goto-history-element: Beginning of history; no preceding item
Searched 1 buffer; 63 matches for `^\+.* nil 0)$'
Mark saved where search started [2 times]
clear-abbrev-table: Wrong type argument: stringp, 
Debug on Error enabled globally
Entering debugger...
Scanning for dabbrevs...100%

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