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 The error_logger handler will also log more complete error messages (protected
 with use of trunc_io) to a "crash log" which can be referred to for further
 information. The location of the crash log can be specified by the crash_log
-application variable. If undefined it is not written at all.
+application variable. If set to `undefined` it is not written at all.
 
 Messages in the crash log are subject to a maximum message size which can be
 specified via the crash_log_msg_size application variable.