Ping? One function that fails to return the same thing when compiled vs interpreted is REDUCE/STRCAT from uiop/utility.lisp.
Another function that behaves in a weird way is configure-asdf from test/script-support.lisp, whereby the form (acall :pathname-directory-pathname (nth-value 2 (acall :locate-system :test-asdf))) returns NIL when (load-asdf) is run, vs the proper answer (the pathname of .../asdf/test/) when (configure-asdf) is run directly. Possibly, the fact that the functions are being (re)defined while (load-asdf) is run is confusing GCL. Or maybe there's a problem with multiple-values in some operation mode. Can you look into it? There are other failures, but these are show stoppers. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org The War on Terrorism is missing the point: what we need is a War on War! — Kennita Watson On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Faré <fah...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> wrote: >>> Logical pathnames are both tricky and ultimately useless. They are a >>> legacy thing that was never developed (premature standards cause >>> premature code that can't evolve) and is now replaced by better >>> things. I wouldn't make a priority of getting them perfect. >> >> Thanks so much for saying this! You seem to make heavy use of it for >> some reason in your tests, upon seeing which I thrust my hands >> heavenward and exclaim 'no, not that.... anything but that...!' :-) >> > Yeah, well, as you can see, I procrastinated on more important stuff > by obsessing about getting things working right with logical pathnames, > for the benefit of the handful (max) of misguided cranky semi-old timers > who use them and report bugs. janderson, p-cos — who else is crazy enough > to use "logical" pathnames? > > Because I was semi-regularly getting reports that I was breaking support > for logical-pathnames, I ended up including them in my tests. > They are also in half the tests in the janderson-contributed > asdf-pathname-test.script. > > Back to the failures. > 1- Even simple uses of STRCAT seem to bork: > (uiop:strcat "abc" "def") should return "abcdef" but instead fails > Even (uiop:strcat "abc") fails mysteriously. > In compiling etypecase, the type string seems badly supported. > > 2- there are plenty of condition-related issues. > I haven't been able to isolate then, but shouldn't be too hard > to reproduce with the instructions given by the test suite on failure. > It seems to me that conditions are not compiled properly, > perhaps due to all the eval-when business. > > 3- Last but not least, there are pathname issues that are not related > to logical pathnames. > I admit I am not too familiar with that part of the test suite. > > I'll try again when I have a decent machine and connection (I'm > currently on the move). > > —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org > Many people escape old fairy tales (creationism, homeopathy, monarchy) > only to fall into new ones (democracy, socialism, global warmism)... _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
