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Impossible var type! [was: I love the new server...]

Nice verb!  So I decided to try it...

@functions
disassemble(OBJ, ANY)
tochar(NUM)
uudecode(STR)
call_function(STR, ...)
[...]
filewrite(STR, STR, LIST, [NUM, NUM])
function_info([STR])
value_bytes(ANY)
#2:@function*s, line 25:  Range error
(End of traceback)

So I looked into it...

;function_info()
=> {{"disassemble", 2, 2, {1, -1}}, {"tochar", 1, 1, {0}}, {"uudecode", 1, 1,
[...]
{"value_bytes", 1, 1, {-1}}, {"decode_binary", 1, 2, {2, 99286}},
                                                         ^^^^^
Now something tells me that 99286 is not a possible Var type.  Hmm, this is the
first time I've stumbled on to one of those without panicking the server.  I shut
off BayWeb, which is the only thing that uses decode_binary, in hopes that the
server doesn't notice...

Perhaps unrelatedly, earlier today, it crashed right after a successful
checkpoint, because of an impossible Var type:

Jan 26 21:05:22: CHECKPOINTING on MOO.db.new.#26# ...
Jan 26 21:05:23: CHECKPOINTING: Writing 219 objects...
Jan 26 21:06:48: CHECKPOINTING: Done writing 219 objects...
Jan 26 21:06:48: CHECKPOINTING: Writing 1740 MOO verb programs...
Jan 26 21:10:37: CHECKPOINTING: Done writing 1740 verb programs...
Jan 26 21:10:37: CHECKPOINTING: Writing forked and suspended tasks...
Jan 26 21:10:38: CHECKPOINTING: Writing list of formerly active connections...
Jan 26 21:10:38: CHECKPOINTING on MOO.db.new.#26# finished
Jan 26 23:04:59: *** FREE_VAR: Impossible var type: 286212
Jan 26 23:04:59: *** FREE_VAR: Impossible var type: 262616
[end of log file]

It was 1.8.0alpha5.  After that I upgraded to alpha6, and that's what it's running
now.  So far it hasn't crashed or anything, so if there are any checks that I
should do on it while it's still running, I can.

Phantom
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