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It's not clear to me that it matters.<BR>
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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>
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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>
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<BR>
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On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 14:10 -0500, Waldo Rubinstein wrote:
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<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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