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obnoxious overoptimizing compiler bug



In system 29.96 NWS, with microcode 669, on LISP Machine Two:

(defun foo (x) (and (memq x '(foo bar baz)) t))
Is compiled so that if x memq '(foo bar baz) the result of that call is returned, rather
than t.
(defun bar (x) (and (memq x '(foo bar baz)) 'gazork)) is, of course, compiled properly.
This is not what AND is documented as doing. FOO is actually a reasonable thing to want
to do, to get a pure predicate, so that, eg, we could see if a and b had the same foo
value with (eq (foo a) (foo b)).