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On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 17:28 +0200, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> tir, 20.07.2004 kl. 15.45 skrev David Woodhouse:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 08:41 +0200, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> > > What if gc_node points to the last node?
> > 
> > Then you just finished garbage collecting the eraseblock in question.
> > You should have a single node which is now first_node and last_node, and
> > which is obsolete. You can just set gc_node to NULL.
> 
> Setting gc_node to NULL crashed when I tried it.

Crashed how? It should be trivially fixable.

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