Need help -- redefining existing functions (reloading modified source)

Greetings!

"Stavros Macrakis" <stavros.macrakis@verizon.net> writes:

> > First I would usually try loading the non-compiled version of 
> > the same file into the lisp system and see if the same 
> > problem occurs. If it does not occur, then it is a bug in the 
> > compiled version only, and it is not going to be easy to fix. 
> 
> Funny you mention this.  I was just banging my head against the wall
> with a problem (trying to run Dan Stangers qfactor code) where the
> compiled version of mlisp.lisp crashes the system, but if you reload
> source Lisp, the interpreted version works just fine.  Unfortunately,
> compile-file also crashes the system, so I can't try recompiling to see
> what happens...!
> 
> Has anyone else run into these problems?
> 
> Maxima 5.9.0 gcl 2.5.0 W2k
> 
               ^^^^^^^^^

Sure would be nice if we could get builds on recent 2.6.1 for
Windows.  Much work has been done since this release.  Unfortunately,
the mirrors are down now due to the Debian security issue, but should
be up again soon.

Please watch

http://people.debian.org/~camm/gcl



Take care,

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Camm Maguire			     			camm@enhanced.com
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