the fix_iterator() function moves an iterator so that it points
to the predecessor of the searched-for name when that name doesn't
exist in the database. the tests only checked the correctness of
the top of the stack, however, and missed some cases where interior
branches in the stack could be missing or duplicated. in these
cases, the iterator would produce inconsistent results when walked.
the predecessors test case in qp_test has been updated to walk
each iterator to the end and ensure that the expected number of
nodes are found.
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