[armedbear-devel] Infinite loop loading compiled file

[Greg Baryza]

Sent, Erik.  Thank you.  Please confirm that you have it in hand.

At 10:11 PM 1/25/2011, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>Hi Greg,
>
>On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Greg Baryza <baryza at intersystems.com> wrote:
> > I have a self-contained directory that has only the QI files needed to
> > reproduce the problem. Â In it there is a subdirectory called JAR where you
> > should place the ABCL jar file of your choice. Â _COMPILE.bat compiles 
> files
> > and then loads them; it hangs trying to load the fourth file. _BUILD.bat
> > uses the same files but just loads the lisp sources; it works.
>
>That looks like a manageable size reproduction. Interesting.
>
>Could you send directly to me on my sender address? I'll check it out.
>
>Bye,
>
>Erik.
>
>
> > I have all this in a 16KB zip file ready to go. Â Where do you want it?
> >
> > <G>
> >
> > At 09:23 PM 1/25/2011, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Greg Baryza <baryza at intersystems.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I recently became interested in the language QI. Â Since it did not run
> >> > on
> >> > ABCL (it does on SBCL, Allegro, LispWorks and others), I decided to see
> >> > what it would take to move it there. Â From the QI mailing list, I 
> found
> >> > several others had tried on earlier versions of ABCL with inconclusive
> >> > results. Â I decided to give it a try on 0.23.1.
> >> >
> >> > When I tried the standard script with compiles and then loads the
> >> > compiled
> >> > files, ABCL hangs it what appears to be an infinite loop try to load one
> >> > of
> >> > the compiled files. Â When I switch to just loading them in as Lisp
> >> > sources,
> >> > things seem to work (though some of the QI tests later fail).
> >> >
> >> > I tried the compile/load script under 0.24.0 today and the same hang
> >> > happens.
> >> >
> >> > I have a small test case consisting only of the needed sources and a
> >> > couple
> >> > of .bat files for Windows that demonstrates the problem, but before I
> >> > proceed further, has anyone seem anything like this. Â The file in
> >> > question
> >> > DEFUNs about 85 functions. Â Is that too many to provoke the "large
> >> > file"
> >> > problem I see mentioned here?
> >>
> >> Could you provide us with a transcript for downloading/installing Qi
> >> so we/I can test?
> >>
> >> If this is the same old bug, the ball is really in Qi's park, but if
> >> it's not, we're really happy to fix what we can!
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >> Bye,
> >>
> >>
> >> Erik.
> >
> >