diff --git a/c/mapping/mlr_dsl_cst.c b/c/mapping/mlr_dsl_cst.c
index d479f08a0..2a3540d88 100644
--- a/c/mapping/mlr_dsl_cst.c
+++ b/c/mapping/mlr_dsl_cst.c
@@ -2199,6 +2199,7 @@ static void handle_emit_all_to_stdfp(
 	// xxx handle better, maybe in a class. the opts aren't complete at alloc time so we need to handle them here.
 	if (pnode->psingle_lrec_writer == NULL) {
 		cli_opts_t* popts = MLR_GLOBALS.popts;
+		// xxx bag up as popts per se 1st.
 		pnode->psingle_lrec_writer = lrec_writer_alloc(popts->ofile_fmt, popts->ors, popts->ofs, popts->ops,
 			popts->headerless_csv_output, popts->oquoting, popts->left_align_pprint,
 			popts->right_justify_xtab_value, popts->json_flatten_separator, popts->quote_json_values_always,
@@ -2220,6 +2221,7 @@ static void handle_emit_all_to_stdfp(
 	}
 	sllmv_free(pmvnames);
 
+	// xxx make method
 	while (poutrecs->phead != NULL) {
 		lrec_t* poutrec = sllv_pop(poutrecs);
 		pnode->psingle_lrec_writer->pprocess_func(pnode->stdfp, poutrec, pnode->psingle_lrec_writer->pvstate);
diff --git a/c/todo.txt b/c/todo.txt
index dd5c26229..5e74f291a 100644
--- a/c/todo.txt
+++ b/c/todo.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 ================================================================
 BUGFIXES
 
-*
-  mlr --from myfile.dat put '@v[NR][NR]=$* ; emit > stderr, @*, "index1", "index2"'
-  mlr: internal coding error detected in file mapping/rval_expr_evaluators.c at line 66.
-
-* need to ignore subproc abend ?!?
+* need to ignore subproc abend (e.g. grep nonesuch) ?!?
 
   mlr --from myfile.dat put '@v[NR][NR]=$*; emit | "grep somepattern", @*, "index1", "index2"'
   ...