Question on Lisp documentation tools



The size of the XREF information is likely to be substantial and
so it may be more of a problem to use it than you might
at first think.
RJF


C Y wrote:
> --- Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> wrote:
> 
>>    CY> Urk.  What are the problems with the CMU xref?  Also, any
>>pointers to
>>    CY> the CMUCL xref and whoever is developing it?
>>
>>I haven't used xref in a long time but IIRC it had trouble when you
>>defined functions using macro/macrolet.  There may have been other
>>issues.  Not a problem with maxima, probably.
> 
> 
> That might explain one of the failures I enountered.  There aren't all
> that many files that xref doesn't like - if i posted the failures do
> you think you could provide some insight?  It sounds like you know how
> this stuff works better than I.
> 
> 
>>The CMUCL xref is done by Eric Marsden and was announced just today
>>on the cmucl-imp mailing list I think.  He said binaries are
> 
> available
> 
>>in the experimental directory on www.cons.org.  (Somewhere. I always
>>have to poke around to find it.)
> 
> 
> Found the source - looks like CMUCL will have to be recompiled to
> support it.  Ugh.  Maybe I'll wait for the next binary release - I've
> had abysmal luck when I try to compile CMUCL.
> 
> CY
> 
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