Requesting input on some possible low-level changes



On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 01:18, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:

> Could you send me you toy program which crashes ANSI GCL?

In the processing of double-checking my toy program, I discovered the
simplest way to crash ANSI GCL on my machine: enter an unkown variable
at the REPL prompt:
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|addiator>gcl
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  (2.6.0) Mon Sep  1 20:20:56 CDT 2003
Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
Dedicated to the memory of W. Schelter

Use (help) to get some basic information on how to use GCL.

>(setq x 5)

5

>x

5

>y

Unrecoverable error: bind stack overflow.
Aborted
|addiator>
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(I added the (setq x 5) line just to show that something works.

> As for Maxima-ANSI GCL build, I'll check it (it was OK
> not so long ago but I'm not sure now).

Please do. I think my build was crashing when it tried to load bessel.o.
My build is not a very good example -- what I have is neither 5.9.0, nor
the current cvs version. However, I haven't been messing with bessel, so
I don't think the error is related to anything weird in my Maxima.

> In any case new GCL release is planned in the near
> future and probably both issues could be fixed.

That would be great.

--Jim