3 Bugs can be reported on the help mailing list
4 sbcl-help@lists.sourceforge.net
5 or on the development mailing list
6 sbcl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
8 Please include enough information in a bug report that someone reading
9 it can reproduce the problem, i.e. don't write
10 Subject: apparent bug in PRINT-OBJECT (or *PRINT-LENGTH*?)
11 PRINT-OBJECT doesn't seem to work with *PRINT-LENGTH*. Is this a bug?
13 Subject: apparent bug in PRINT-OBJECT (or *PRINT-LENGTH*?)
14 In sbcl-1.2.3 running under OpenBSD 4.5 on my Alpha box, when
15 I compile and load the file
16 (DEFSTRUCT (FOO (:PRINT-OBJECT (LAMBDA (X Y)
17 (LET ((*PRINT-LENGTH* 4))
20 then at the command line type
22 the program loops endlessly instead of printing the object.
27 There is also some information on bugs in the manual page and
28 in the TODO file. Eventually more such information may move here.
30 The gaps in the number sequence belong to old bug descriptions which
31 have gone away (typically because they were fixed, but sometimes for
32 other reasons, e.g. because they were moved elsewhere).
35 KNOWN BUGS OF NO SPECIAL CLASS:
38 DEFSTRUCT almost certainly should overwrite the old LAYOUT information
39 instead of just punting when a contradictory structure definition
40 is loaded. As it is, if you redefine DEFSTRUCTs in a way which
41 changes their layout, you probably have to rebuild your entire
42 program, even if you know or guess enough about the internals of
43 SBCL to wager that this (undefined in ANSI) operation would be safe.
46 ANSI specifies that a type mismatch in a structure slot
47 initialization value should not cause a warning.
49 This one might not be fixed for a while because while we're big
50 believers in ANSI compatibility and all, (1) there's no obvious
51 simple way to do it (short of disabling all warnings for type
52 mismatches everywhere), and (2) there's a good portable
53 workaround, and (3) by their own reasoning, it looks as though
54 ANSI may have gotten it wrong. ANSI justifies this specification
56 The restriction against issuing a warning for type mismatches
57 between a slot-initform and the corresponding slot's :TYPE
58 option is necessary because a slot-initform must be specified
59 in order to specify slot options; in some cases, no suitable
61 However, in SBCL (as in CMU CL or, for that matter, any compiler
62 which really understands Common Lisp types) a suitable default
63 does exist, in all cases, because the compiler understands the
64 concept of functions which never return (i.e. has return type NIL).
65 Thus, as a portable workaround, you can use a call to some
66 known-never-to-return function as the default. E.g.
68 (BAR (ERROR "missing :BAR argument")
69 :TYPE SOME-TYPE-TOO-HAIRY-TO-CONSTRUCT-AN-INSTANCE-OF))
71 (DECLAIM (FTYPE (FUNCTION () NIL) MISSING-ARG))
72 (DEFUN REQUIRED-ARG () ; workaround for SBCL non-ANSI slot init typing
73 (ERROR "missing required argument"))
75 (BAR (REQUIRED-ARG) :TYPE TRICKY-TYPE-OF-SOME-SORT)
76 (BLETCH (REQUIRED-ARG) :TYPE TRICKY-TYPE-OF-SOME-SORT)
77 (N-REFS-SO-FAR 0 :TYPE (INTEGER 0)))
78 Such code should compile without complaint and work correctly either
79 on SBCL or on any other completely compliant Common Lisp system.
82 bogus warnings about undefined functions for magic functions like
83 SB!C::%%DEFUN and SB!C::%DEFCONSTANT when cross-compiling files
84 like src/code/float.lisp. Fixing this will probably require
85 straightening out enough bootstrap consistency issues that
86 the cross-compiler can run with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*.
87 Instead, the cross-compiler runs in a slightly flaky state
88 which is sane enough to compile SBCL itself, but which is
89 also unstable in several ways, including its inability
90 to really grok function declarations.
92 As of sbcl-0.7.5, sbcl's cross-compiler does run with
93 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*; however, this bug remains.
96 The "compiling top-level form:" output ought to be condensed.
97 Perhaps any number of such consecutive lines ought to turn into a
98 single "compiling top-level forms:" line.
101 The way that the compiler munges types with arguments together
102 with types with no arguments (in e.g. TYPE-EXPAND) leads to
103 weirdness visible to the user:
104 (DEFTYPE FOO () 'FIXNUM)
106 (TYPEP 11 '(FOO)) => T, which seems weird
107 (TYPEP 11 'FIXNUM) => T
108 (TYPEP 11 '(FIXNUM)) signals an error, as it should
109 The situation is complicated by the presence of Common Lisp types
110 like UNSIGNED-BYTE (which can either be used in list form or alone)
111 so I'm not 100% sure that the behavior above is actually illegal.
112 But I'm 90+% sure, and the following related behavior,
114 treating the bare symbol AND as equivalent to '(AND), is specifically
115 forbidden (by the ANSI specification of the AND type).
118 It would be nice if the
120 (during macroexpansion)
121 said what macroexpansion was at fault, e.g.
123 (during macroexpansion of IN-PACKAGE,
124 during macroexpansion of DEFFOO)
127 (SUBTYPEP '(FUNCTION (T BOOLEAN) NIL)
128 '(FUNCTION (FIXNUM FIXNUM) NIL)) => T, T
129 (Also, when this is fixed, we can enable the code in PROCLAIM which
130 checks for incompatible FTYPE redeclarations.)
133 (I *think* this is a bug. It certainly seems like strange behavior. But
134 the ANSI spec is scary, dark, and deep.. -- WHN)
135 (FORMAT NIL "~,1G" 1.4) => "1. "
136 (FORMAT NIL "~3,1G" 1.4) => "1. "
139 from Marco Antoniotti on cmucl-imp mailing list 1 Mar 2000:
141 (setf (find-class 'ccc1) (find-class 'ccc))
142 (defmethod zut ((c ccc1)) 123)
143 In sbcl-0.7.1.13, this gives an error,
144 There is no class named CCC1.
145 DTC's recommended workaround from the mailing list 3 Mar 2000:
146 (setf (pcl::find-class 'ccc1) (pcl::find-class 'ccc))
149 Sometimes (SB-EXT:QUIT) fails with
150 Argh! maximum interrupt nesting depth (4096) exceeded, exiting
151 Process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 1
152 I haven't noticed a repeatable case of this yet.
155 The printer doesn't report closures very well. This is true in
159 #<Closure Over Function "DEFUN STRUCTURE-SLOT-ACCESSOR" {134D1A1}>
160 It would be nice to make closures have a settable name slot,
161 and make things like DEFSTRUCT and FLET, which create closures,
162 set helpful values into this slot.
165 And as long as we're wishing, it would be awfully nice if INSPECT could
166 also report on closures, telling about the values of the bound variables.
169 The compiler assumes that any time a function of declared FTYPE
170 doesn't signal an error, its arguments were of the declared type.
171 E.g. compiling and loading
172 (DECLAIM (OPTIMIZE (SAFETY 3)))
173 (DEFUN FACTORIAL (X) (GAMMA (1+ X)))
175 (DECLAIM (FTYPE (FUNCTION (UNSIGNED-BYTE)) FACTORIAL))
177 (COND ((> (FACTORIAL X) 1.0E6)
178 (FORMAT T "too big~%"))
180 (FORMAT T "exactly ~S~%" (FACTORIAL X)))
182 (FORMAT T "approximately ~S~%" (FACTORIAL X)))))
185 will cause the INTEGERP case to be selected, giving bogus output a la
187 This violates the "declarations are assertions" principle.
188 According to the ANSI spec, in the section "System Class FUNCTION",
189 this is a case of "lying to the compiler", but the lying is done
190 by the code which calls FACTORIAL with non-UNSIGNED-BYTE arguments,
191 not by the unexpectedly general definition of FACTORIAL. In any case,
192 "declarations are assertions" means that lying to the compiler should
193 cause an error to be signalled, and should not cause a bogus
194 result to be returned. Thus, the compiler should not assume
195 that arbitrary functions check their argument types. (It might
196 make sense to add another flag (CHECKED?) to DEFKNOWN to
197 identify functions which *do* check their argument types.)
198 (Also, verify that the compiler handles declared function
199 return types as assertions.)
202 TYPEP of VALUES types is sometimes implemented very inefficiently, e.g. in
203 (DEFTYPE INDEXOID () '(INTEGER 0 1000))
205 (DECLARE (TYPE INDEXOID X))
206 (THE (VALUES INDEXOID)
208 where the implementation of the type check in function FOO
209 includes a full call to %TYPEP. There are also some fundamental problems
210 with the interpretation of VALUES types (inherited from CMU CL, and
211 from the ANSI CL standard) as discussed on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
212 mailing list, e.g. in Robert Maclachlan's post of 21 Jun 2000.
215 The definitions of SIGCONTEXT-FLOAT-REGISTER and
216 %SET-SIGCONTEXT-FLOAT-REGISTER in x86-vm.lisp say they're not
217 supported on FreeBSD because the floating point state is not saved,
218 but at least as of FreeBSD 4.0, the floating point state *is* saved,
219 so they could be supported after all. Very likely
220 SIGCONTEXT-FLOATING-POINT-MODES could now be supported, too.
223 (as discussed by Douglas Crosher on the cmucl-imp mailing list ca.
224 Aug. 10, 2000): CMUCL currently interprets 'member as '(member); same
225 issue with 'union, 'and, 'or etc. So even though according to the
226 ANSI spec, bare 'MEMBER, 'AND, and 'OR are not legal types, CMUCL
227 (and now SBCL) interpret them as legal types.
230 a slew of floating-point-related errors reported by Peter Van Eynde
232 b: SBCL's value for LEAST-POSITIVE-SHORT-FLOAT is bogus, and
233 should probably be 1.4012985e-45. In SBCL,
234 (/ LEAST-POSITIVE-SHORT-FLOAT 2) returns a number smaller
235 than LEAST-POSITIVE-SHORT-FLOAT. Similar problems
236 exist for LEAST-NEGATIVE-SHORT-FLOAT, LEAST-POSITIVE-LONG-FLOAT,
237 and LEAST-NEGATIVE-LONG-FLOAT.
238 c: Many expressions generate floating infinity on x86/Linux:
243 PVE's regression tests want them to raise errors. sbcl-0.7.0.5
244 on x86/Linux generates the infinities instead. That might or
245 might not be conforming behavior, but it's also inconsistent,
246 which is almost certainly wrong. (Inconsistency: (/ 1 0.0)
247 should give the same result as (/ 1.0 0.0), but instead (/ 1 0.0)
248 generates SINGLE-FLOAT-POSITIVE-INFINITY and (/ 1.0 0.0)
250 d: (in section12.erg) various forms a la
251 (FLOAT 1 DOUBLE-FLOAT-EPSILON)
252 don't give the right behavior.
255 type safety errors reported by Peter Van Eynde July 25, 2000:
256 c: (COERCE 'AND 'FUNCTION) returns something related to
257 (MACRO-FUNCTION 'AND), but ANSI says it should raise an error.
258 k: READ-BYTE is supposed to signal TYPE-ERROR when its argument is
259 not a binary input stream, but instead cheerfully reads from
260 character streams, e.g. (MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM "abc").
263 DEFCLASS bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde July 25, 2000:
264 d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) should signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, but instead
265 causes a COMPILER-ERROR.
268 miscellaneous errors reported by Peter Van Eynde July 25, 2000:
270 (DEFGENERIC FOO02 (X))
271 (DEFMETHOD FOO02 ((X NUMBER)) T)
272 (LET ((M (FIND-METHOD (FUNCTION FOO02)
274 (LIST (FIND-CLASS (QUOTE NUMBER))))))
275 (REMOVE-METHOD (FUNCTION FOO02) M)
276 (DEFGENERIC FOO03 (X))
277 (ADD-METHOD (FUNCTION FOO03) M)))
278 should give an error, but SBCL allows it.
281 It has been reported (e.g. by Peter Van Eynde) that there are
282 several metaobject protocol "errors". (In order to fix them, we might
283 need to document exactly what metaobject protocol specification
284 we're following -- the current code is just inherited from PCL.)
287 The debugger LIST-LOCATIONS command doesn't work properly.
290 Compiling and loading
291 (DEFUN FAIL (X) (THROW 'FAIL-TAG X))
293 then requesting a BACKTRACE at the debugger prompt gives no information
294 about where in the user program the problem occurred.
297 The compiler is supposed to do type inference well enough that
300 ((SIMPLE-ARRAY SINGLE-FLOAT)
302 (DECLARE (TYPE (SIMPLE-ARRAY SINGLE-FLOAT) X))
305 is redundant. However, as reported by Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll for
306 CMU CL, it sometimes doesn't. Adding declarations is a pretty good
307 workaround for the problem for now, but can't be done by the TYPECASE
308 macros themselves, since it's too hard for the macro to detect
309 assignments to the variable within the clause.
310 Note: The compiler *is* smart enough to do the type inference in
311 many cases. This case, derived from a couple of MACROEXPAND-1
312 calls on Ripoll's original test case,
314 (DECLARE (OPTIMIZE SPEED (SAFETY 0)))
315 (COND ((TYPEP A '(SIMPLE-ARRAY SINGLE-FLOAT)) NIL
316 (LET ((LENGTH (ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE A)))
317 (LET ((I 0) (G2554 LENGTH))
318 (DECLARE (TYPE REAL G2554) (TYPE REAL I))
321 (WHEN (>= I G2554) (GO SB-LOOP::END-LOOP))
322 (SETF (ROW-MAJOR-AREF A I) (- (ROW-MAJOR-AREF A I)))
323 (GO SB-LOOP::NEXT-LOOP)
324 SB-LOOP::END-LOOP))))))
325 demonstrates the problem; but the problem goes away if the TAGBODY
326 and GO forms are removed (leaving the SETF in ordinary, non-looping
327 code), or if the TAGBODY and GO forms are retained, but the
328 assigned value becomes 0.0 instead of (- (ROW-MAJOR-AREF A I)).
331 Paul Werkowski wrote on cmucl-imp@cons.org 2000-11-15
332 I am looking into this problem that showed up on the cmucl-help
333 list. It seems to me that the "implementation specific environment
334 hacking functions" found in pcl/walker.lisp are completely messed
335 up. The good thing is that they appear to be barely used within
336 PCL and the munged environment object is passed to cmucl only
337 in calls to macroexpand-1, which is probably why this case fails.
338 SBCL uses essentially the same code, so if the environment hacking
339 is screwed up, it affects us too.
342 Using the pretty-printer from the command prompt gives funny
343 results, apparently because the pretty-printer doesn't know
344 about user's command input, including the user's carriage return
345 that the user, and therefore the pretty-printer thinks that
346 the new output block should start indented 2 or more characters
347 rightward of the correct location.
350 As reported by Winton Davies on a CMU CL mailing list 2000-01-10,
351 and reported for SBCL by Martin Atzmueller 2000-10-20: (TRACE GETHASH)
352 crashes SBCL. In general tracing anything which is used in the
353 implementation of TRACE is likely to have the same problem.
356 As reported by Martin Atzmueller on sbcl-devel 26 Dec 2000,
357 ANSI says that WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING should have a keyword
358 :ELEMENT-TYPE, but in sbcl-0.6.9 this is not defined for
359 WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING.
362 ANSI says in one place that type declarations can be abbreviated even
363 when the type name is not a symbol, e.g.
364 (DECLAIM ((VECTOR T) *FOOVECTOR*))
365 SBCL doesn't support this. But ANSI says in another place that this
366 isn't allowed. So it's not clear this is a bug after all. (See the
367 e-mail on cmucl-help@cons.org on 2001-01-16 and 2001-01-17 from WHN
371 as pointed out by Dan Barlow on sbcl-devel 2000-07-02:
372 The PICK-TEMPORARY-FILE-NAME utility used by LOAD-FOREIGN uses
373 an easily guessable temporary filename in a way which might open
374 applications using LOAD-FOREIGN to hijacking by malicious users
375 on the same machine. Incantations for doing this safely are
376 floating around the net in various "how to write secure programs
377 despite Unix" documents, and it would be good to (1) fix this in
378 LOAD-FOREIGN, and (2) hunt for any other code which uses temporary
379 files and make it share the same new safe logic.
381 (partially alleviated in sbcl-0.7.9.32 by a fix by Matthew Danish to
382 make the temporary filename less easily guessable)
385 Functions are assigned names based on the context in which they're
386 defined. This is less than ideal for the functions which are
387 used to implement CLOS methods. E.g. the output of
388 (DESCRIBE 'PRINT-OBJECT) lists functions like
389 #<FUNCTION "DEF!STRUCT (TRACE-INFO (:MAKE-LOAD-FORM-FUN SB-KERNEL:JUST-DUMP-IT-NORMALLY) (:PRINT-OBJECT #))" {1020E49}>
391 #<FUNCTION "MACROLET ((FORCE-DELAYED-DEF!METHODS NIL #))" {1242871}>
392 It would be better if these functions' names always identified
393 them as methods, and identified their generic functions and
397 RANDOM-INTEGER-EXTRA-BITS=10 may not be large enough for the RANDOM
398 RNG to be high quality near RANDOM-FIXNUM-MAX; it looks as though
399 the mean of the distribution can be systematically O(0.1%) wrong.
400 Just increasing R-I-E-B is probably not a good solution, since
401 it would decrease efficiency more than is probably necessary. Perhaps
402 using some sort of accept/reject method would be better.
405 Internally the compiler sometimes evaluates
406 (sb-kernel:type/= (specifier-type '*) (specifier-type t))
407 (I stumbled across this when I added an
408 (assert (not (eq type1 *wild-type*)))
409 in the NAMED :SIMPLE-= type method.) '* isn't really a type, and
410 in a type context should probably be translated to T, and so it's
411 probably wrong to ask whether it's equal to the T type and then (using
412 the EQ type comparison in the NAMED :SIMPLE-= type method) return NIL.
413 (I haven't tried to investigate this bug enough to guess whether
414 there might be any user-level symptoms.)
416 In fact, the type system is likely to depend on this inequality not
417 holding... * is not equivalent to T in many cases, such as
418 (VECTOR *) /= (VECTOR T).
421 Inconsistencies between derived and declared VALUES return types for
422 DEFUN aren't checked very well. E.g. the logic which successfully
423 catches problems like
424 (declaim (ftype (function (fixnum) float) foo))
426 (declare (type integer x))
427 (values x)) ; wrong return type, detected, gives warning, good!
429 (declaim (ftype (function (t) (values t t)) bar))
431 (values x)) ; wrong number of return values, no warning, bad!
432 The cause of this is seems to be that (1) the internal function
433 VALUES-TYPES-EQUAL-OR-INTERSECT used to make the check handles its
434 arguments symmetrically, and (2) when the type checking code was
435 written back when when SBCL's code was still CMU CL, the intent
437 (declaim (ftype (function (t) t) bar))
439 (values x x)) ; wrong number of return values; should give warning?
440 not be warned for, because a two-valued return value is considered
441 to be compatible with callers who expects a single value to be
442 returned. That intent is probably not appropriate for modern ANSI
443 Common Lisp, but fixing this might be complicated because of other
444 divergences between auld-style and new-style handling of
445 multiple-VALUES types. (Some issues related to this were discussed
446 on cmucl-imp at some length sometime in 2000.)
449 The facility for dumping a running Lisp image to disk gets confused
450 when run without the PURIFY option, and creates an unnecessarily large
451 core file (apparently representing memory usage up to the previous
452 high-water mark). Moreover, when the file is loaded, it confuses the
453 GC, so that thereafter memory usage can never be reduced below that
457 In sbcl-0.6.11.41 (and in all earlier SBCL, and in CMU
458 CL), out-of-line structure slot setters are horribly inefficient
459 whenever the type of the slot is declared, because out-of-line
460 structure slot setters are implemented as closures to save space,
461 so the compiler doesn't compile the type test into code, but
462 instead just saves the type in a lexical closure and interprets it
464 A proper solution involves deciding whether it's really worth
465 saving space by implementing structure slot accessors as closures.
466 (If it's not worth it, the problem vanishes automatically. If it
467 is worth it, there are hacks we could use to force type tests to
468 be compiled anyway, and even shared. E.g. we could implement
469 an EQUAL hash table mapping from types to compiled type tests,
470 and save the appropriate compiled type test as part of each lexical
471 closure; or we could make the lexical closures be placeholders
472 which overwrite their old definition as a lexical closure with
473 a new compiled definition the first time that they're called.)
474 As a workaround for the problem, #'(SETF FOO) expressions can
475 be replaced with (EFFICIENT-SETF-FUNCTION FOO), where
476 (defmacro efficient-setf-function (place-function-name)
477 (or #+sbcl (and (sb-impl::info :function :accessor-for place-function-name)
478 ;; a workaround for the problem, encouraging the
479 ;; inline expansion of the structure accessor, so
480 ;; that the compiler can optimize its type test
481 (let ((new-value (gensym "NEW-VALUE-"))
482 (structure-value (gensym "STRUCTURE-VALUE-")))
483 `(lambda (,new-value ,structure-value)
484 (setf (,place-function-name ,structure-value)
486 ;; no problem, can just use the ordinary expansion
487 `(function (setf ,place-function-name))))
490 There's apparently a bug in CEILING optimization which caused
491 Douglas Crosher to patch the CMU CL version. Martin Atzmueller
492 applied the patches to SBCL and they didn't seem to cause problems
493 (as reported sbcl-devel 2001-05-04). However, since the patches
494 modify nontrivial code which was apparently written incorrectly
495 the first time around, until regression tests are written I'm not
496 comfortable merging the patches in the CVS version of SBCL.
499 (TIME (ROOM T)) reports more than 200 Mbytes consed even for
500 a clean, just-started SBCL system. And it seems to be right:
501 (ROOM T) can bring a small computer to its knees for a *long*
502 time trying to GC afterwards. Surely there's some more economical
503 way to implement (ROOM T).
506 When the compiler inline expands functions, it may be that different
507 kinds of return values are generated from different code branches.
508 E.g. an inline expansion of POSITION generates integer results
509 from one branch, and NIL results from another. When that inline
510 expansion is used in a context where only one of those results
513 (aref *a1* (position x *a2*)))
514 and the compiler can't prove that the unacceptable branch is
515 never taken, then bogus type mismatch warnings can be generated.
516 If you need to suppress the type mismatch warnings, you can
517 suppress the inline expansion,
519 #+sbcl (declare (notinline position)) ; to suppress bug 117 bogowarnings
520 (aref *a1* (position x *a2*)))
521 or, sometimes, suppress them by declaring the result to be of an
524 (aref *a1* (the integer (position x *a2*))))
526 This is not a new compiler problem in 0.7.0, but the new compiler
527 transforms for FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, and POSITION-IF make it
528 more conspicuous. If you don't need performance from these functions,
529 and the bogus warnings are a nuisance for you, you can return to
530 your pre-0.7.0 state of grace with
531 #+sbcl (declaim (notinline find position find-if position-if)) ; bug 117..
534 as reported by Eric Marsden on cmucl-imp@cons.org 2001-08-14:
535 (= (FLOAT 1 DOUBLE-FLOAT-EPSILON)
536 (+ (FLOAT 1 DOUBLE-FLOAT-EPSILON) DOUBLE-FLOAT-EPSILON)) => T
537 when of course it should be NIL. (He says it only fails for X86,
538 not SPARC; dunno about Alpha.)
540 Also, "the same problem exists for LONG-FLOAT-EPSILON,
541 DOUBLE-FLOAT-NEGATIVE-EPSILON, LONG-FLOAT-NEGATIVE-EPSILON (though
542 for the -negative- the + is replaced by a - in the test)."
544 Raymond Toy comments that this is tricky on the X86 since its FPU
545 uses 80-bit precision internally.
548 Even in sbcl-0.pre7.x, which is supposed to be free of the old
549 non-ANSI behavior of treating the function return type inferred
550 from the current function definition as a declaration of the
551 return type from any function of that name, the return type of NIL
552 is attached to FOO in 120a above, and used to optimize code which
556 As of version 0.pre7.14, SBCL's implementation of MACROLET makes
557 the entire lexical environment at the point of MACROLET available
558 in the bodies of the macroexpander functions. In particular, it
559 allows the function bodies (which run at compile time) to try to
560 access lexical variables (which are only defined at runtime).
561 It doesn't even issue a warning, which is bad.
563 The SBCL behavior arguably conforms to the ANSI spec (since the
564 spec says that the behavior is undefined, ergo anything conforms).
565 However, it would be better to issue a compile-time error.
566 Unfortunately I (WHN) don't see any simple way to detect this
567 condition in order to issue such an error, so for the meantime
568 SBCL just does this weird broken "conforming" thing.
570 The ANSI standard says, in the definition of the special operator
572 The macro-expansion functions defined by MACROLET are defined
573 in the lexical environment in which the MACROLET form appears.
574 Declarations and MACROLET and SYMBOL-MACROLET definitions affect
575 the local macro definitions in a MACROLET, but the consequences
576 are undefined if the local macro definitions reference any
577 local variable or function bindings that are visible in that
579 Then it seems to contradict itself by giving the example
581 (macrolet ((fudge (z)
582 ;The parameters x and flag are not accessible
583 ; at this point; a reference to flag would be to
584 ; the global variable of that name.
585 ` (if flag (* ,z ,z) ,z)))
586 ;The parameters x and flag are accessible here.
590 The comment "a reference to flag would be to the global variable
591 of the same name" sounds like good behavior for the system to have.
592 but actual specification quoted above says that the actual behavior
595 (Since 0.7.8.23 macroexpanders are defined in a restricted version
596 of the lexical environment, containing no lexical variables and
597 functions, which seems to conform to ANSI and CLtL2, but signalling
598 a STYLE-WARNING for references to variables similar to locals might
602 (as reported by Gabe Garza on cmucl-help 2001-09-21)
604 (defun test-pred (x y)
608 (func (lambda () x)))
609 (print (eq func func))
610 (print (test-pred func func))
611 (delete func (list func))))
612 Now calling (TEST-CASE) gives output
615 (#<FUNCTION {500A9EF9}>)
616 Evidently Python thinks of the lambda as a code transformation so
617 much that it forgets that it's also an object.
620 The DEFSTRUCT section of the ANSI spec, in the :CONC-NAME section,
621 specifies a precedence rule for name collisions between slot accessors of
622 structure classes related by inheritance. As of 0.7.0, SBCL still
626 Ideally, uninterning a symbol would allow it, and its associated
627 FDEFINITION and PROCLAIM data, to be reclaimed by the GC. However,
628 at least as of sbcl-0.7.0, this isn't the case. Information about
629 FDEFINITIONs and PROCLAIMed properties is stored in globaldb.lisp
630 essentially in ordinary (non-weak) hash tables keyed by symbols.
631 Thus, once a system has an entry in this system, it tends to live
632 forever, even when it is uninterned and all other references to it
636 Pretty-printing nested backquotes doesn't work right, as
637 reported by Alexey Dejneka sbcl-devel 2002-01-13:
639 ``(FOO SB-IMPL::BACKQ-COMMA-AT S)
640 * (lisp-implementation-version)
644 (reported by Jesse Bouwman 2001-10-24 through the unfortunately
645 prominent SourceForge web/db bug tracking system, which is
646 unfortunately not a reliable way to get a timely response from
647 the SBCL maintainers)
648 In the course of trying to build a test case for an
649 application error, I encountered this behavior:
650 If you start up sbcl, and then lay on CTRL-C for a
651 minute or two, the lisp process will eventually say:
652 %PRIMITIVE HALT called; the party is over.
653 and throw you into the monitor. If I start up lisp,
654 attach to the process with strace, and then do the same
655 (abusive) thing, I get instead:
656 access failure in heap page not marked as write-protected
657 and the monitor again. I don't know enough to have the
658 faintest idea of what is going on here.
659 This is with sbcl 6.12, uname -a reports:
660 Linux prep 2.2.19 #4 SMP Tue Apr 24 13:59:52 CDT 2001 i686 unknown
661 I (WHN) have verified that the same thing occurs on sbcl-0.pre7.141
662 under OpenBSD 2.9 on my X86 laptop. Do be patient when you try it:
663 it took more than two minutes (but less than five) for me.
666 (This was once known as IR1-4, but it lived on even after the
667 IR1 interpreter went to the big bit bucket in the sky.)
668 The system accepts DECLAIM in most places where DECLARE would be
669 accepted, without even issuing a warning. ANSI allows this, but since
670 it's fairly easy to mistype DECLAIM instead of DECLARE, and the
671 meaning is rather different, and it's unlikely that the user
672 has a good reason for doing DECLAIM not at top level, it would be
673 good to issue a STYLE-WARNING when this happens. A possible
674 fix would be to issue STYLE-WARNINGs for DECLAIMs not at top level,
675 or perhaps to issue STYLE-WARNINGs for any EVAL-WHEN not at top level.
676 [This is considered an IR1-interpreter-related bug because until
677 EVAL-WHEN is rewritten, which won't happen until after the IR1
678 interpreter is gone, the system's notion of what's a top-level form
679 and what's not will remain too confused to fix this problem.]
682 ANSI allows types `(COMPLEX ,FOO) to use very hairy values for
683 FOO, e.g. (COMPLEX (AND REAL (SATISFIES ODDP))). The old CMU CL
684 COMPLEX implementation didn't deal with this, and hasn't been
685 upgraded to do so. (This doesn't seem to be a high priority
686 conformance problem, since seems hard to construct useful code
690 Floating point errors are reported poorly. E.g. on x86 OpenBSD
693 debugger invoked on condition of type SB-KERNEL:FLOATING-POINT-EXCEPTION:
694 An arithmetic error SB-KERNEL:FLOATING-POINT-EXCEPTION was signalled.
695 No traps are enabled? How can this be?
696 It should be possible to be much more specific (overflow, division
697 by zero, etc.) and of course the "How can this be?" should be fixable.
699 See also bugs #45.c and #183
702 In sbcl-0.7.1.3 on x86, COMPILE-FILE on the file
703 (in-package :cl-user)
706 (defstruct foo bar bletch)
708 (labels ((kidify1 (kid)
716 (declare (inline kid-frob))
719 (the simple-vector (foo-bar perd)))))
721 debugger invoked on condition of type TYPE-ERROR:
722 The value NIL is not of type SB-C::NODE.
723 The location of this failure has moved around as various related
724 issues were cleaned up. As of sbcl-0.7.1.9, it occurs in
725 NODE-BLOCK called by LAMBDA-COMPONENT called by IR2-CONVERT-CLOSURE.
727 (Python LET-converts KIDIFY1 into KID-FROB, then tries to inline
728 expand KID-FROB into %ZEEP. Having partially done it, it sees a call
729 of KIDIFY1, which already does not exist. So it gives up on
730 expansion, leaving garbage consisting of infinished blocks of the
731 partially converted function.)
734 Functions SUBTYPEP, TYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE, and
735 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE should have an optional environment argument.
736 (reported by Alexey Dejneka sbcl-devel 2002-04-12)
739 (reported by Robert E. Brown 2002-04-16)
740 When a function is called with too few arguments, causing the
741 debugger to be entered, the uninitialized slots in the bad call frame
742 seem to cause GCish problems, being interpreted as tagged data even
743 though they're not. In particular, executing ROOM in the
744 debugger at that point causes AVER failures:
747 * (lisp-implementation-version)
753 failed AVER: "(SAP= CURRENT END)"
754 (Christophe Rhodes reports that this doesn't occur on the SPARC, which
755 isn't too surprising since there are many differences in stack
756 implementation and GC conservatism between the X86 and other ports.)
759 In sbcl-0.7.3.11, compiling the (illegal) code
760 (in-package :cl-user)
761 (defmethod prove ((uustk uustk))
764 gives the (not terribly clear) error message
766 ; (during macroexpansion of (DEFMETHOD PROVE ...))
767 ; can't get template for (FROB NIL NIL)
768 The problem seems to be that the code walker used by the DEFMETHOD
769 macro is unhappy with the illegal syntax in the method body, and
770 is giving an unclear error message.
773 The compiler sometimes tries to constant-fold expressions before
774 it checks to see whether they can be reached. This can lead to
775 bogus warnings about errors in the constant folding, e.g. in code
778 (WRITE-STRING (> X 0) "+" "0"))
779 compiled in a context where the compiler can prove that X is NIL,
780 and the compiler complains that (> X 0) causes a type error because
781 NIL isn't a valid argument to #'>. Until sbcl-0.7.4.10 or so this
782 caused a full WARNING, which made the bug really annoying because then
783 COMPILE and COMPILE-FILE returned FAILURE-P=T for perfectly legal
784 code. Since then the warning has been downgraded to STYLE-WARNING,
785 so it's still a bug but at least it's a little less annoying.
787 178: "AVER failure compiling confused THEs in FUNCALL"
788 In sbcl-0.7.4.24, compiling
790 (funcall (the function (the standard-object x))))
793 "(AND (EQ (IR2-CONTINUATION-PRIMITIVE-TYPE 2CONT) FUNCTION-PTYPE) (EQ CHECK T))"
794 This variant compiles OK, though:
795 (defun bug178alternative (x)
796 (funcall (the nil x)))
798 (since 0.7.8.9 it does not signal an error; see also bug 199)
800 183: "IEEE floating point issues"
801 Even where floating point handling is being dealt with relatively
802 well (as of sbcl-0.7.5, on sparc/sunos and alpha; see bug #146), the
803 accrued-exceptions and current-exceptions part of the fp control
804 word don't seem to bear much relation to reality. E.g. on
808 debugger invoked on condition of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO:
809 arithmetic error DIVISION-BY-ZERO signalled
810 0] (sb-vm::get-floating-point-modes)
812 (:TRAPS (:OVERFLOW :INVALID :DIVIDE-BY-ZERO)
813 :ROUNDING-MODE :NEAREST
814 :CURRENT-EXCEPTIONS NIL
815 :ACCRUED-EXCEPTIONS (:INEXACT)
818 * (sb-vm::get-floating-point-modes)
819 (:TRAPS (:OVERFLOW :INVALID :DIVIDE-BY-ZERO)
820 :ROUNDING-MODE :NEAREST
821 :CURRENT-EXCEPTIONS (:INEXACT)
822 :ACCRUED-EXCEPTIONS (:INEXACT)
825 187: "type inference confusion around DEFTRANSFORM time"
826 (reported even more verbosely on sbcl-devel 2002-06-28 as "strange
827 bug in DEFTRANSFORM")
828 After the file below is compiled and loaded in sbcl-0.7.5, executing
829 (TCX (MAKE-ARRAY 4 :FILL-POINTER 2) 0)
830 at the REPL returns an adjustable vector, which is wrong. Presumably
831 somehow the DERIVE-TYPE information for the output values of %WAD is
832 being mispropagated as a type constraint on the input values of %WAD,
833 and so causing the type test to be optimized away. It's unclear how
834 hand-expanding the DEFTRANSFORM would change this, but it suggests
835 the DEFTRANSFORM machinery (or at least the way DEFTRANSFORMs are
836 invoked at a particular phase) is involved.
837 (cl:in-package :sb-c)
838 (eval-when (:compile-toplevel)
839 ;;; standin for %DATA-VECTOR-AND-INDEX
840 (defknown %dvai (array index)
842 (foldable flushable))
843 (deftransform %dvai ((array index)
847 (let* ((atype (continuation-type array))
848 (eltype (array-type-specialized-element-type atype)))
849 (when (eq eltype *wild-type*)
850 (give-up-ir1-transform
851 "specialized array element type not known at compile-time"))
852 (when (not (array-type-complexp atype))
853 (give-up-ir1-transform "SIMPLE array!"))
854 `(if (array-header-p array)
855 (%wad array index nil)
856 (values array index))))
857 ;;; standin for %WITH-ARRAY-DATA
858 (defknown %wad (array index (or index null))
859 (values (simple-array * (*)) index index index)
860 (foldable flushable))
861 ;;; (Commenting out this optimizer causes the bug to go away.)
862 (defoptimizer (%wad derive-type) ((array start end))
863 (let ((atype (continuation-type array)))
864 (when (array-type-p atype)
865 (values-specifier-type
866 `(values (simple-array ,(type-specifier
867 (array-type-specialized-element-type atype))
869 index index index)))))
871 (defun %wad (array start end)
872 (format t "~&in %WAD~%")
873 (%with-array-data array start end))
874 (cl:in-package :cl-user)
876 (declare (type (vector t) v))
877 (declare (notinline sb-kernel::%with-array-data))
878 ;; (Hand-expending DEFTRANSFORM %DVAI here also causes the bug to
882 188: "compiler performance fiasco involving type inference and UNION-TYPE"
883 (In sbcl-0.7.6.10, DEFTRANSFORM CONCATENATE was commented out until this
884 bug could be fixed properly, so you won't see the bug unless you restore
885 the DEFTRANSFORM by hand.) In sbcl-0.7.5.11 on a 700 MHz Pentium III,
889 (declare (optimize (safety 3)))
890 (declare (optimize (compilation-speed 2)))
891 (declare (optimize (speed 1) (debug 1) (space 1)))
892 (let ((fn "if-this-file-exists-the-universe-is-strange"))
893 (load fn :if-does-not-exist nil)
894 (load (concatenate 'string fn ".lisp") :if-does-not-exist nil)
895 (load (concatenate 'string fn ".fasl") :if-does-not-exist nil)
896 (load (concatenate 'string fn ".misc-garbage")
897 :if-does-not-exist nil)))))
899 134.552 seconds of real time
900 133.35156 seconds of user run time
901 0.03125 seconds of system run time
902 [Run times include 2.787 seconds GC run time.]
904 246883368 bytes consed.
905 BACKTRACE from Ctrl-C in the compilation shows that the compiler is
906 thinking about type relationships involving types like
908 (OR (INTEGER 576 576)
919 190: "PPC/Linux pipe? buffer? bug"
920 In sbcl-0.7.6, the run-program.test.sh test script sometimes hangs
921 on the PPC/Linux platform, waiting for a zombie env process. This
922 is a classic symptom of buffer filling and deadlock, but it seems
923 only sporadically reproducible.
925 191: "Miscellaneous PCL deficiencies"
926 (reported by Alexey Dejneka sbcl-devel 2002-08-04)
927 a. DEFCLASS does not inform the compiler about generated
928 functions. Compiling a file with
932 (WITH-SLOTS (A-CLASS-X) A
934 results in a STYLE-WARNING:
936 SB-SLOT-ACCESSOR-NAME::|COMMON-LISP-USER A-CLASS-X slot READER|
938 APD's fix for this was checked in to sbcl-0.7.6.20, but Pierre
939 Mai points out that the declamation of functions is in fact
940 incorrect in some cases (most notably for structure
941 classes). This means that at present erroneous attempts to use
942 WITH-SLOTS and the like on classes with metaclass STRUCTURE-CLASS
943 won't get the corresponding STYLE-WARNING.
944 c. the examples in CLHS 7.6.5.1 (regarding generic function lambda
945 lists and &KEY arguments) do not signal errors when they should.
947 192: "Python treats free type declarations as promises."
948 b. What seemed like the same fundamental problem as bug 192a, but
949 was not fixed by the same (APD "more strict type checking
950 sbcl-devel 2002-08-97) patch:
951 (DOTIMES (I ...) (DOTIMES (J ...) (DECLARE ...) ...)):
952 (declaim (optimize (speed 1) (safety 3)))
953 (defun trust-assertion (i)
955 (declare (type (mod 4) i)) ; when commented out, behavior changes!
958 (trust-assertion 6) ; prints nothing unless DECLARE is commented out
962 194: "no error from (THE REAL '(1 2 3)) in some cases"
965 (multiple-value-prog1 (progn (the real '(1 2 3))))
966 returns (1 2 3) instead of signalling an error. This was fixed by
967 APD's "more strict type checking patch", but although the fixed
968 code (in sbcl-0.7.7.19) works (signals TYPE-ERROR) interactively,
969 it's difficult to write a regression test for it, because
970 (IGNORE-ERRORS (MULTIPLE-VALUE-PROG1 (PROGN (THE REAL '(1 2 3)))))
971 still returns (1 2 3).
973 b. (IGNORE-ERRORS (MULTIPLE-VALUE-PROG1 (PROGN (THE REAL '(1 2 3)))))
974 returns (1 2 3). (As above, this shows up when writing regression
975 tests for fixed-ness of part a.)
976 c. Also in sbcl-0.7.7.9, (IGNORE-ERRORS (THE REAL '(1 2 3))) => (1 2 3).
980 (arg2 (identity (the real #(1 2 3)))))
981 (if (< arg1 arg2) arg1 arg2))))
983 but putting the same expression inside (DEFUN FOO () ...),
986 * Actually this entry is probably multiple bugs, as
987 Alexey Dejneka commented on sbcl-devel 2002-09-03:)
988 I don't think that placing these two bugs in one entry is
989 a good idea: they have different explanations. The second
990 (min 1 nil) is caused by flushing of unused code--IDENTITY
991 can do nothing with it. So it is really bug 122. The first
992 (min nil) is due to M-V-PROG1: substituting a continuation
993 for the result, it forgets about type assertion. The purpose
994 of IDENTITY is to save the restricted continuation from
995 inaccurate transformations.
996 * Alexey Dejneka pointed out that
997 (IGNORE-ERRORS (IDENTITY (THE REAL '(1 2 3))))
998 works as it should. Also
999 (IGNORE-ERRORS (VALUES (THE REAL '(1 2 3))))
1000 works as it should. Perhaps this is another case of VALUES type
1001 intersections behaving in non-useful ways?
1003 199: "hairy FUNCTION types confuse the compiler"
1004 (reported by APD sbcl-devel 2002-09-15)
1006 (EQ NIL (FUNCALL F)))
1009 (DECLARE (TYPE (AND FUNCTION (SATISFIES MUR)) F))
1012 fails to compile, printing
1014 "(AND (EQ (IR2-CONTINUATION-PRIMITIVE-TYPE 2CONT) FUNCTION-PTYPE) (EQ CHECK T))"
1016 APD further reports that this bug is not present in CMUCL.
1018 (this case was fixed in 0.7.8.9; see also bug 178)
1020 201: "Incautious type inference from compound CONS types"
1021 (reported by APD sbcl-devel 2002-09-17)
1023 (LET ((Y (CAR (THE (CONS INTEGER *) X))))
1025 (FORMAT NIL "~S IS ~S, Y = ~S"
1032 (FOO ' (1 . 2)) => "NIL IS INTEGER, Y = 1"
1035 Compiler does not check THEs on unused values, e.g. in
1037 (progn (the real (list 1)) t)
1039 This situation may appear during optimizing away degenerate cases of
1040 certain functions: see bug 192b.
1042 205: "environment issues in cross compiler"
1043 (These bugs have no impact on user code, but should be fixed or
1045 a. Macroexpanders introduced with MACROLET are defined in the null
1046 lexical environment.
1047 b. The body of (EVAL-WHEN (:COMPILE-TOPLEVEL) ...) is evaluated in
1048 the null lexical environment.
1050 206: ":SB-FLUID feature broken"
1051 (reported by Antonio Martinez-Shotton sbcl-devel 2002-10-07)
1052 Enabling :SB-FLUID in the target-features list in sbcl-0.7.8 breaks
1055 207: "poorly distributed SXHASH results for compound data"
1056 SBCL's SXHASH could probably try a little harder. ANSI: "the
1057 intent is that an implementation should make a good-faith
1058 effort to produce hash-codes that are well distributed
1059 within the range of non-negative fixnums". But
1060 (let ((hits (make-hash-table)))
1063 (let* ((ij (cons i j))
1064 (newlist (push ij (gethash (sxhash ij) hits))))
1066 (format t "~&collision: ~S~%" newlist))))))
1067 reports lots of collisions in sbcl-0.7.8. A stronger MIX function
1068 would be an obvious way of fix. Maybe it would be acceptably efficient
1069 to redo MIX using a lookup into a 256-entry s-box containing
1070 29-bit pseudorandom numbers?
1072 208: "package confusion in PCL handling of structure slot handlers"
1073 In sbcl-0.7.8 compiling and loading
1075 (defstruct foo (slot (error "missing")) :type list :read-only t)
1076 (defmethod print-object ((foo foo) stream) (print nil stream))
1077 causes CERROR "attempting to modify a symbol in the COMMON-LISP
1078 package: FOO-SLOT". (This is fairly bad code, but still it's hard
1079 to see that it should cause symbols to be interned in the CL package.)
1081 211: "keywords processing"
1082 a. :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS T should allow a function to receive an odd
1083 number of keyword arguments.
1086 (flet ((foo (&key y) (list y)))
1087 (list (foo :y 1 :y 2)))
1089 issues confusing message
1094 ; caught STYLE-WARNING:
1095 ; The variable #:G15 is defined but never used.
1097 212: "Sequence functions and circular arguments"
1098 COERCE, MERGE and CONCATENATE go into an infinite loop when given
1099 circular arguments; it would be good for the user if they could be
1100 given an error instead (ANSI 17.1.1 allows this behaviour on the part
1101 of the implementation, as conforming code cannot give non-proper
1102 sequences to these functions. MAP also has this problem (and
1103 solution), though arguably the convenience of being able to do
1104 (MAP 'LIST '+ FOO '#1=(1 . #1#))
1105 might be classed as more important (though signalling an error when
1106 all of the arguments are circular is probably desireable).
1108 213: "Sequence functions and type checking"
1109 a. MAKE-SEQUENCE, COERCE, MERGE and CONCATENATE cannot deal with
1110 various complicated, though recognizeable, CONS types [e.g.
1111 (CONS * (CONS * NULL))
1112 which according to ANSI should be recognized] (and, in SAFETY 3
1113 code, should return a list of LENGTH 2 or signal an error)
1114 b. MAP, when given a type argument that is SUBTYPEP LIST, does not
1115 check that it will return a sequence of the given type. Fixing
1116 it along the same lines as the others (cf. work done around
1117 sbcl-0.7.8.45) is possible, but doing so efficiently didn't look
1118 entirely straightforward.
1119 c. All of these functions will silently accept a type of the form
1121 whether or not the return value is of this type. This is
1122 probably permitted by ANSI (see "Exceptional Situations" under
1123 ANSI MAKE-SEQUENCE), but the DERIVE-TYPE mechanism does not
1124 know about this escape clause, so code of the form
1125 (INTEGERP (CAR (MAKE-SEQUENCE '(CONS INTEGER *) 2)))
1126 can erroneously return T.
1129 SBCL 0.6.12.43 fails to compile
1132 (declare (optimize (inhibit-warnings 0) (compilation-speed 2)))
1133 (flet ((foo (&key (x :vx x-p)) (list x x-p)))
1136 or a more simple example:
1139 (declare (optimize (inhibit-warnings 0) (compilation-speed 2)))
1140 (lambda (x) (declare (fixnum x)) (if (< x 0) 0 (1- x))))
1142 215: ":TEST-NOT handling by functions"
1143 a. FIND and POSITION currently signal errors when given non-NIL for
1144 both their :TEST and (deprecated) :TEST-NOT arguments, but by
1145 ANSI 17.2 "the consequences are unspecified", which by ANSI 1.4.2
1146 means that the effect is "unpredictable but harmless". It's not
1147 clear what that actually means; it may preclude conforming
1148 implementations from signalling errors.
1149 b. COUNT, REMOVE and the like give priority to a :TEST-NOT argument
1150 when conflict occurs. As a quality of implementation issue, it
1151 might be preferable to treat :TEST and :TEST-NOT as being in some
1152 sense the same &KEY, and effectively take the first test function in
1154 c. Again, a quality of implementation issue: it would be good to issue a
1155 STYLE-WARNING at compile-time for calls with :TEST-NOT, and a
1156 WARNING for calls with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT; possibly this
1157 latter should be WARNed about at execute-time too.
1159 216: "debugger confused by frames with invalid number of arguments"
1160 In sbcl-0.7.8.51, executing e.g. (VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND T), BACKTRACE, Q
1161 leaves the system confused, enough so that (QUIT) no longer works.
1162 It's as though the process of working with the uninitialized slot in
1163 the bad VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND frame causes GC problems, though that may
1164 not be the actual problem. (CMU CL 18c doesn't have problems with this.)
1166 217: "Bad type operations with FUNCTION types"
1169 * (values-type-union (specifier-type '(function (base-char)))
1170 (specifier-type '(function (integer))))
1172 #<FUN-TYPE (FUNCTION (BASE-CHAR) *)>
1174 It causes insertion of wrong type assertions into generated
1178 (let ((f (etypecase x
1179 (character #'write-char)
1180 (integer #'write-byte))))
1183 (character (write-char x s))
1184 (integer (write-byte x s)))))
1186 Then (FOO #\1 *STANDARD-OUTPUT*) signals type error.
1188 (In 0.7.9.1 the result type is (FUNCTION * *), so Python does not
1189 produce invalid code, but type checking is not accurate. Similar
1190 problems exist with VALUES-TYPE-INTERSECTION.)
1192 218: "VALUES type specifier semantics"
1193 (THE (VALUES ...) ...) in safe code discards extra values.
1195 (defun test (x y) (the (values integer) (truncate x y)))
1198 219: "DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO in non-toplevel contexts evaluated at compile-time"
1203 (define-compiler-macro bar (&whole whole)
1204 (declare (ignore whole))
1205 (print "expanding compiler macro")
1208 * (defun baz (x) (bar))
1210 "expanding compiler macro"
1216 Sbcl 0.7.9 fails to compile
1218 (multiple-value-call #'list
1219 (the integer (helper))
1222 Type check for INTEGER is inserted, the result of which serves as
1223 the first argument of M-V-C, is inserted after evaluation of NIL. So
1224 arguments of M-V-C are pushed in the wrong order. As a temporary
1225 workaround type checking was disabled for M-V-Cs in 0.7.9.13. A
1226 better solution would be to put a check between evaluation of
1227 arguments, but it could be tricky to check result types of PROG1, IF
1230 222: "environment problems in PCL"
1233 (symbol-macrolet ((x 1))
1235 (macrolet ((ml (form) `(progn ,form ,x)))
1240 debugger invoked on condition of type UNBOUND-VARIABLE:
1241 The variable X is unbound.
1243 223: "(SETF FDEFINITION) and #' semantics broken for wrappers"
1248 (lambda (&rest rest)
1249 (format t "~&about to call ~S on ~S~%" fn rest)
1251 (format t "~&returned from ~S~%" fn)))
1252 (setf (fdefinition 'foo)
1255 does what one would expect, this
1259 (setf (fdefinition 'bar)
1260 (lambda (&rest rest)
1261 (format t "~&about to enter BAR ~S~%" rest)
1263 (format t "~&back from BAR~%"))))
1265 recurses endlessly in sbcl-0.7.9.32. (Or it works if #' and
1266 FDEFINITION are replaced by SYMBOL-FUNCTION.)
1269 SBCL 0.7.8 fails to compile
1271 (localy (declare (optimize (safety 3)))
1272 (ignore-errors (progn (values-list (car (list '(1 . 2)))) t)))
1274 226: "AVER failure in COMPILE-FILE of clocc-ansi-test/tests.lisp"
1278 DEFUNCT CATEGORIES OF BUGS
1280 These labels were used for bugs related to the old IR1 interpreter.
1281 The # values reached 6 before the category was closed down.