<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Robert,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've tried to tackle this to no avail. Maybe my knowledge does not extend that far yet :(</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Little more help would be needed. Maybe someone else's participation could help.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV>Waldo</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Robert L. Read wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> It's not clear to me that it matters.<BR> <BR> Going either direction will likely lead to a solution. I would take Andrew's advice, <BR> since his hunch may have vailidity, and also because it is the first failure in the test suite.<BR> <BR> But the course of action would be the same:<BR> <BR> 1) Take the test that fails, copy the code out of it into a separate file where the RT <BR> code won't obscure the problem.<BR> 2) Instrument the code to find the earliest possible error; in this case, that may be <BR> the failure of that instantiation code to let you get to that slot, or maybe some other slot.<BR> 3) Whenever you want, I will take your test code and run it under SBCL.<BR> <BR> In this way we should be able to relatively quickly determine the important difference<BR> between SBCL and OpenMCL. Depending on what you find, I will likely need Andrew's<BR> advice on how to fix it.<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 14:10 -0500, Waldo Rubinstein wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE"> <PRE><FONT color="#000000">Thanks Andrew. Robert, how do you want to proceed. Where should I </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">look for potential CLOS problems?</FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">- Waldo</FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">On Jan 13, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Blumberg wrote:</FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> hi robert and waldo,</FONT>
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<FONT color="#000000">> before going too far in debugging the secondary indices part of </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> the problem, i think it's worth trying to figure out the CLOS </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> problem --- i suspect that the rest of the issue might be a symptom </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> of that, and "fixing" the secondary indices stuff might just paper </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> over the real problem. if you're going to spend time instrumenting </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> code, better to investigate the CLOS test failures first.</FONT>
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<FONT color="#000000">> - andrew</FONT>
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