Requesting input on some possible low-level changes

James Amundson writes:

>>>I have started on implementations of these proposals for ANSI Lisps. The
>>>big problem here is that I do not know how to implement (B) in GCL. I
>>>would really like to get some feedback on these ideas before I pursue
>>>them any further.
>>>
>>
>>Could you elaborate a bit - what kind of troubles you experience with 
>>GCL?  Some ANSI functionality is lacking?  Or in general B) is heavily
>>Lisp implementation specific?
> 
> 
> So far, I have only relied on functionality defined in the ANSI spec,
> specifically *debugger-hook* and with-simple-restart. The only testing I
> have done with GCL is with GCL CVS as of yesterday. If I use the
> traditional (non-ANSI) build, neither *debugger-hook* nor
> with-simple-restart are defined. If I try the ANSI build, (1) my toy
> program crashes and (2) Maxima fails to compile. I have spent very
> little effort investigating these problems -- I wanted to wait until I
> get enough feedback to decide that I'm on the right track with the
> current approach.
> 

Could you send me you toy program which crashes ANSI GCL?
As for Maxima-ANSI GCL build, I'll check it (it was OK
not so long ago but I'm not sure now).
In any case new GCL release is planned in the near
future and probably both issues could be fixed.

Vadim



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