diff --git a/src/jit/dump.lua b/src/jit/dump.lua
index be6a3bcb..c9016ce5 100644
--- a/src/jit/dump.lua
+++ b/src/jit/dump.lua
@@ -554,10 +554,8 @@ local function dump_trace(what, tr, func, pc, otr, oex)
     out:write("---- TRACE ", tr, " ", what)
     if otr then out:write(" ", otr, "/", oex) end
     out:write(" ", fmtfunc(func, pc), "\n")
-    recprefix = ""
   elseif what == "stop" or what == "abort" then
     out:write("---- TRACE ", tr, " ", what)
-    recprefix = nil
     if what == "abort" then
       out:write(" ", fmtfunc(func, pc), " -- ", fmterr(otr, oex), "\n")
     else
diff --git a/src/lj_record.c b/src/lj_record.c
index 5bd2d5db..9a3e3375 100644
--- a/src/lj_record.c
+++ b/src/lj_record.c
@@ -1603,10 +1603,8 @@ static void rec_varg(jit_State *J, BCReg dst, ptrdiff_t nresults)
     } else if (dst + nresults > J->maxslot) {
       J->maxslot = dst + (BCReg)nresults;
     }
-    for (i = 0; i < nresults; i++) {
-      J->base[dst+i] = i < nvararg ? J->base[i - nvararg - 1] : TREF_NIL;
-      lua_assert(J->base[dst+i] != 0);
-    }
+    for (i = 0; i < nresults; i++)
+      J->base[dst+i] = i < nvararg ? getslot(J, i - nvararg - 1) : TREF_NIL;
   } else {  /* Unknown number of varargs passed to trace. */
     TRef fr = emitir(IRTI(IR_SLOAD), 0, IRSLOAD_READONLY|IRSLOAD_FRAME);
     int32_t frofs = 8*(1+numparams)+FRAME_VARG;