I think this is the same compiler problem that is causing the failure I just reported to cmucl-imp.
Martin [full quote for reference] Mark Saaltink wrote on Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 05:36:02PM -0500: > Dear cmucl developers, > > There seems to be an error in the compilation of fixnum operations: > > (defun hash2 (x y) > (declare (type fixnum x y)) > (logand (the fixnum (+ x y)) 255)) > > If I compile this in 19a or the 2004-11 snapshot (in linux on an x86), > any calls where the sum is negative give an error. For example: > > * (hash2 -1 0) > > Type-error in KERNEL::OBJECT-NOT-FIXNUM-ERROR-HANDLER: > 4294967295 is not of type FIXNUM > [Condition of type TYPE-ERROR] > > As far as I can tell, the optimization settings do not affect the outcome. > > The disassembly of hash2 indicates that X86::+-MOD32 is called, so maybe > this has to do with the recent introduction of modular arithmetic. > > Mark Saaltink
