[Ecls-list] ECL HEAD + Slime HEAD

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Marko Kocić writes:

> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Tobias C. Rittweiler <tcr at freebits.de> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like people to test current Slime HEAD with ECL HEAD.
> >
> > If you build ECL with --enable-threads, Slime will now use threads on
> > ECL. If you build ecl with serve-event, Slime will use that (though I
> > haven't tested that yet.)
> >
> > All in all, this should result in much better user experience. No random
> > hangups anymore, etc.
> >
> > Important is that you do use ECL HEAD though, revisions of a few days
> > ago, won't do.
> >
> I updated to latest slime and latest ecl (cvs and git from few minutes
> ago) and notice the following problems
> - first start of ecl (with clean .slime) under slime is ok
> - stack overflow fault when doing restart, somethimes before,
> somethimes after quit
> - stack overflow (almost always) when doing start after quit
> - slime is now compiled (I think that is the point)
>
> Platform is ubuntu 64 bit, ecl is with unicode and threads enabled

I'm on 32 bit and not experiencing any such problems.

Can you give exact steps what you're doing? 

Also, once Slime is connected to the SWANK server, you can attach gdb to
the ecl process, then print a backtrace after stack overflow.

  -T.