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In languages/lisp/system.pir there are 4 unused PMCs declared.
Removing one of them breaks Lisp.

Here  is an example session:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/devel/Parrot/repos/parrot/languages/lisp$ svn diff
Index: system.pir
===================================================================
--- system.pir  (Revision 20981)
+++ system.pir  (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
     .local pmc dummy_1
     .local pmc dummy_2
     .local pmc dummy_3
-    .local pmc dummy_4

     _init_reader_macros( package )

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/devel/Parrot/repos/parrot/languages/lisp$ ../../parrot 
lisp.pbc t/arithmetics_1.l
wrong number of arguments to %GET-OBJECT-ATTRIBUTE
current instr.: '_error' pc 2065 (read.pir:194)
called from Sub '_get_object_attr' pc 7321 (system.pir:12)
called from Sub '_setq' pc 14048 (cl.pir:941)
called from Sub '_load' pc 7021 (system.pir:436)
called from Sub '_common_lisp' pc 17015 (lisp.pir:77)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/devel/Parrot/repos/parrot/languages/lisp$ uname -a
Linux clou 2.6.20-16-386 #2 Thu Jun 7 20:16:13 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/devel/Parrot/repos/parrot/languages/lisp$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/devel/Parrot/repos/parrot/languages/lisp$ 


My guess is that this is GC-related, but I haven't verified or falsified 
that yet.

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