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REPORTING BUGS

Bugs can be reported on the help mailing list
  sbcl-help@lists.sourceforge.net
or on the development mailing list
  sbcl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Please include enough information in a bug report that someone reading
it can reproduce the problem, i.e. don't write
     Subject: apparent bug in PRINT-OBJECT (or *PRINT-LENGTH*?)
     PRINT-OBJECT doesn't seem to work with *PRINT-LENGTH*. Is this a bug?
but instead
     Subject: apparent bug in PRINT-OBJECT (or *PRINT-LENGTH*?)
     In sbcl-1.2.3 running under OpenBSD 4.5 on my Alpha box, when
     I compile and load the file
       (DEFSTRUCT (FOO (:PRINT-OBJECT (LAMBDA (X Y)
                                        (LET ((*PRINT-LENGTH* 4))
                                          (PRINT X Y)))))
         X Y)
     then at the command line type
       (MAKE-FOO)
     the program loops endlessly instead of printing the object.


NOTES:

There is also some information on bugs in the manual page and
in the TODO file. Eventually more such information may move here.

The gaps in the number sequence belong to old bug descriptions which
have gone away (typically because they were fixed, but sometimes for
other reasons, e.g. because they were moved elsewhere).


KNOWN BUGS OF NO SPECIAL CLASS:

2:
  DEFSTRUCT almost certainly should overwrite the old LAYOUT information
  instead of just punting when a contradictory structure definition
  is loaded. As it is, if you redefine DEFSTRUCTs in a way which 
  changes their layout, you probably have to rebuild your entire
  program, even if you know or guess enough about the internals of
  SBCL to wager that this (undefined in ANSI) operation would be safe.

3:
  ANSI specifies that a type mismatch in a structure slot
  initialization value should not cause a warning.
WORKAROUND:
  This one might not be fixed for a while because while we're big
  believers in ANSI compatibility and all, (1) there's no obvious
  simple way to do it (short of disabling all warnings for type
  mismatches everywhere), and (2) there's a good portable
  workaround, and (3) by their own reasoning, it looks as though
  ANSI may have gotten it wrong. ANSI justifies this specification
  by saying 
    The restriction against issuing a warning for type mismatches
    between a slot-initform and the corresponding slot's :TYPE
    option is necessary because a slot-initform must be specified
    in order to specify slot options; in some cases, no suitable
    default may exist.
  However, in SBCL (as in CMU CL or, for that matter, any compiler
  which really understands Common Lisp types) a suitable default
  does exist, in all cases, because the compiler understands the
  concept of functions which never return (i.e. has return type NIL).
  Thus, as a portable workaround, you can use a call to some
  known-never-to-return function as the default. E.g.
    (DEFSTRUCT FOO
      (BAR (ERROR "missing :BAR argument")
           :TYPE SOME-TYPE-TOO-HAIRY-TO-CONSTRUCT-AN-INSTANCE-OF))
  or 
    (DECLAIM (FTYPE (FUNCTION () NIL) MISSING-ARG))
    (DEFUN REQUIRED-ARG () ; workaround for SBCL non-ANSI slot init typing
      (ERROR "missing required argument")) 
    (DEFSTRUCT FOO
      (BAR (REQUIRED-ARG) :TYPE TRICKY-TYPE-OF-SOME-SORT)
      (BLETCH (REQUIRED-ARG) :TYPE TRICKY-TYPE-OF-SOME-SORT)
      (N-REFS-SO-FAR 0 :TYPE (INTEGER 0)))
  Such code should compile without complaint and work correctly either
  on SBCL or on any other completely compliant Common Lisp system.

6:
  bogus warnings about undefined functions for magic functions like
  SB!C::%%DEFUN and SB!C::%DEFCONSTANT when cross-compiling files
  like src/code/float.lisp. Fixing this will probably require
  straightening out enough bootstrap consistency issues that
  the cross-compiler can run with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*.
  Instead, the cross-compiler runs in a slightly flaky state
  which is sane enough to compile SBCL itself, but which is
  also unstable in several ways, including its inability
  to really grok function declarations.

  As of sbcl-0.7.5, sbcl's cross-compiler does run with
  *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*; however, this bug remains.

7:
  The "compiling top-level form:" output ought to be condensed.
  Perhaps any number of such consecutive lines ought to turn into a
  single "compiling top-level forms:" line.

10:
  The way that the compiler munges types with arguments together
  with types with no arguments (in e.g. TYPE-EXPAND) leads to
  weirdness visible to the user:
        (DEFTYPE FOO () 'FIXNUM)
        (TYPEP 11 'FOO) => T
        (TYPEP 11 '(FOO)) => T, which seems weird
        (TYPEP 11 'FIXNUM) => T
        (TYPEP 11 '(FIXNUM)) signals an error, as it should
  The situation is complicated by the presence of Common Lisp types
  like UNSIGNED-BYTE (which can either be used in list form or alone)
  so I'm not 100% sure that the behavior above is actually illegal.
  But I'm 90+% sure, and the following related behavior,
        (TYPEP 11 'AND) => T
  treating the bare symbol AND as equivalent to '(AND), is specifically
  forbidden (by the ANSI specification of the AND type).

11:
  It would be nice if the
        caught ERROR:
          (during macroexpansion)
  said what macroexpansion was at fault, e.g.
        caught ERROR:
          (during macroexpansion of IN-PACKAGE,
          during macroexpansion of DEFFOO)

15:
  (SUBTYPEP '(FUNCTION (T BOOLEAN) NIL)
            '(FUNCTION (FIXNUM FIXNUM) NIL)) => T, T
  (Also, when this is fixed, we can enable the code in PROCLAIM which 
  checks for incompatible FTYPE redeclarations.)

19:
  (I *think* this is a bug. It certainly seems like strange behavior. But
  the ANSI spec is scary, dark, and deep.. -- WHN)
    (FORMAT NIL  "~,1G" 1.4) => "1.    "
    (FORMAT NIL "~3,1G" 1.4) => "1.    "

20:
  from Marco Antoniotti on cmucl-imp mailing list 1 Mar 2000:
        (defclass ccc () ())
        (setf (find-class 'ccc1) (find-class 'ccc))
        (defmethod zut ((c ccc1)) 123)
  In sbcl-0.7.1.13, this gives an error, 
        There is no class named CCC1.
  DTC's recommended workaround from the mailing list 3 Mar 2000:
        (setf (pcl::find-class 'ccc1) (pcl::find-class 'ccc))

27:
  Sometimes (SB-EXT:QUIT) fails with 
        Argh! maximum interrupt nesting depth (4096) exceeded, exiting
        Process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 1
  I haven't noticed a repeatable case of this yet.

32:
  The printer doesn't report closures very well. This is true in 
  CMU CL 18b as well:
    (PRINT #'CLASS-NAME)
  gives
    #<Closure Over Function "DEFUN STRUCTURE-SLOT-ACCESSOR" {134D1A1}>
  It would be nice to make closures have a settable name slot,
  and make things like DEFSTRUCT and FLET, which create closures,
  set helpful values into this slot.

33:
  And as long as we're wishing, it would be awfully nice if INSPECT could
  also report on closures, telling about the values of the bound variables.

35:
  The compiler assumes that any time a function of declared FTYPE
  doesn't signal an error, its arguments were of the declared type.
  E.g. compiling and loading
    (DECLAIM (OPTIMIZE (SAFETY 3)))
    (DEFUN FACTORIAL (X) (GAMMA (1+ X)))
    (DEFUN GAMMA (X) X)
    (DECLAIM (FTYPE (FUNCTION (UNSIGNED-BYTE)) FACTORIAL))
    (DEFUN FOO (X)
      (COND ((> (FACTORIAL X) 1.0E6)
             (FORMAT T "too big~%"))
            ((INTEGERP X)
             (FORMAT T "exactly ~S~%" (FACTORIAL X)))
            (T
             (FORMAT T "approximately ~S~%" (FACTORIAL X)))))
  then executing
    (FOO 1.5)
  will cause the INTEGERP case to be selected, giving bogus output a la
    exactly 2.5
  This violates the "declarations are assertions" principle.
  According to the ANSI spec, in the section "System Class FUNCTION",
  this is a case of "lying to the compiler", but the lying is done
  by the code which calls FACTORIAL with non-UNSIGNED-BYTE arguments,
  not by the unexpectedly general definition of FACTORIAL. In any case,
  "declarations are assertions" means that lying to the compiler should
  cause an error to be signalled, and should not cause a bogus
  result to be returned. Thus, the compiler should not assume
  that arbitrary functions check their argument types. (It might
  make sense to add another flag (CHECKED?) to DEFKNOWN to 
  identify functions which *do* check their argument types.)
  (Also, verify that the compiler handles declared function
  return types as assertions.)

41:
  TYPEP of VALUES types is sometimes implemented very inefficiently, e.g. in 
        (DEFTYPE INDEXOID () '(INTEGER 0 1000))
        (DEFUN FOO (X)
          (DECLARE (TYPE INDEXOID X))
          (THE (VALUES INDEXOID)
            (VALUES X)))
  where the implementation of the type check in function FOO 
  includes a full call to %TYPEP. There are also some fundamental problems
  with the interpretation of VALUES types (inherited from CMU CL, and
  from the ANSI CL standard) as discussed on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
  mailing list, e.g. in Robert Maclachlan's post of 21 Jun 2000.

42:
  The definitions of SIGCONTEXT-FLOAT-REGISTER and
  %SET-SIGCONTEXT-FLOAT-REGISTER in x86-vm.lisp say they're not
  supported on FreeBSD because the floating point state is not saved,
  but at least as of FreeBSD 4.0, the floating point state *is* saved,
  so they could be supported after all. Very likely 
  SIGCONTEXT-FLOATING-POINT-MODES could now be supported, too.

43:
  (as discussed by Douglas Crosher on the cmucl-imp mailing list ca. 
  Aug. 10, 2000): CMUCL currently interprets 'member as '(member); same
  issue with 'union, 'and, 'or etc. So even though according to the
  ANSI spec, bare 'MEMBER, 'AND, and 'OR are not legal types, CMUCL
  (and now SBCL) interpret them as legal types.

45:
  a slew of floating-point-related errors reported by Peter Van Eynde
  on July 25, 2000:
        b: SBCL's value for LEAST-POSITIVE-SHORT-FLOAT is bogus, and 
           should probably be 1.4012985e-45. In SBCL,
           (/ LEAST-POSITIVE-SHORT-FLOAT 2) returns a number smaller
           than LEAST-POSITIVE-SHORT-FLOAT. Similar problems 
           exist for LEAST-NEGATIVE-SHORT-FLOAT, LEAST-POSITIVE-LONG-FLOAT,
           and LEAST-NEGATIVE-LONG-FLOAT.
        c: Many expressions generate floating infinity on x86/Linux:
                (/ 1 0.0)
                (/ 1 0.0d0)
                (EXPT 10.0 1000)
                (EXPT 10.0d0 1000)
           PVE's regression tests want them to raise errors. sbcl-0.7.0.5
           on x86/Linux generates the infinities instead. That might or
           might not be conforming behavior, but it's also inconsistent,
           which is almost certainly wrong. (Inconsistency: (/ 1 0.0)
           should give the same result as (/ 1.0 0.0), but instead (/ 1 0.0)
           generates SINGLE-FLOAT-POSITIVE-INFINITY and (/ 1.0 0.0)
           signals an error.
        d: (in section12.erg) various forms a la 
                (FLOAT 1 DOUBLE-FLOAT-EPSILON)
           don't give the right behavior.

46:
  type safety errors reported by Peter Van Eynde July 25, 2000:
        c: (COERCE 'AND 'FUNCTION) returns something related to
           (MACRO-FUNCTION 'AND), but ANSI says it should raise an error.
        k: READ-BYTE is supposed to signal TYPE-ERROR when its argument is 
           not a binary input stream, but instead cheerfully reads from
           character streams, e.g. (MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM "abc").

47:
  DEFCLASS bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde July 25, 2000:
        d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) should signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, but instead
           causes a COMPILER-ERROR.

51:
  miscellaneous errors reported by Peter Van Eynde July 25, 2000:
        a: (PROGN
            (DEFGENERIC FOO02 (X))
            (DEFMETHOD FOO02 ((X NUMBER)) T)
            (LET ((M (FIND-METHOD (FUNCTION FOO02)
                                  NIL
                                  (LIST (FIND-CLASS (QUOTE NUMBER))))))
              (REMOVE-METHOD (FUNCTION FOO02) M)
              (DEFGENERIC FOO03 (X))
              (ADD-METHOD (FUNCTION FOO03) M)))
           should give an error, but SBCL allows it.

52:
  It has been reported (e.g. by Peter Van Eynde) that there are 
  several metaobject protocol "errors". (In order to fix them, we might
  need to document exactly what metaobject protocol specification
  we're following -- the current code is just inherited from PCL.)

54:
  The implementation of #'+ returns its single argument without
  type checking, e.g. (+ "illegal") => "illegal".

60:
  The debugger LIST-LOCATIONS command doesn't work properly.

61:
  Compiling and loading
    (DEFUN FAIL (X) (THROW 'FAIL-TAG X))
    (FAIL 12)
  then requesting a BACKTRACE at the debugger prompt gives no information
  about where in the user program the problem occurred.

62:
  The compiler is supposed to do type inference well enough that 
  the declaration in
    (TYPECASE X
      ((SIMPLE-ARRAY SINGLE-FLOAT)
       (LOCALLY
         (DECLARE (TYPE (SIMPLE-ARRAY SINGLE-FLOAT) X))
         ..))
      ..)
  is redundant. However, as reported by Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll for
  CMU CL, it sometimes doesn't. Adding declarations is a pretty good
  workaround for the problem for now, but can't be done by the TYPECASE
  macros themselves, since it's too hard for the macro to detect
  assignments to the variable within the clause. 
    Note: The compiler *is* smart enough to do the type inference in
  many cases. This case, derived from a couple of MACROEXPAND-1
  calls on Ripoll's original test case,
    (DEFUN NEGMAT (A)
      (DECLARE (OPTIMIZE SPEED (SAFETY 0)))
      (COND ((TYPEP A '(SIMPLE-ARRAY SINGLE-FLOAT)) NIL
             (LET ((LENGTH (ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE A)))
               (LET ((I 0) (G2554 LENGTH))
                 (DECLARE (TYPE REAL G2554) (TYPE REAL I))
                 (TAGBODY
                  SB-LOOP::NEXT-LOOP
                  (WHEN (>= I G2554) (GO SB-LOOP::END-LOOP))
                  (SETF (ROW-MAJOR-AREF A I) (- (ROW-MAJOR-AREF A I)))
                  (GO SB-LOOP::NEXT-LOOP)
                  SB-LOOP::END-LOOP))))))
  demonstrates the problem; but the problem goes away if the TAGBODY
  and GO forms are removed (leaving the SETF in ordinary, non-looping
  code), or if the TAGBODY and GO forms are retained, but the 
  assigned value becomes 0.0 instead of (- (ROW-MAJOR-AREF A I)).

63:
  Paul Werkowski wrote on cmucl-imp@cons.org 2000-11-15
    I am looking into this problem that showed up on the cmucl-help
    list. It seems to me that the "implementation specific environment
    hacking functions" found in pcl/walker.lisp are completely messed
    up. The good thing is that they appear to be barely used within
    PCL and the munged environment object is passed to cmucl only
    in calls to macroexpand-1, which is probably why this case fails.
  SBCL uses essentially the same code, so if the environment hacking
  is screwed up, it affects us too.

64:
  Using the pretty-printer from the command prompt gives funny
  results, apparently because the pretty-printer doesn't know
  about user's command input, including the user's carriage return
  that the user, and therefore the pretty-printer thinks that
  the new output block should start indented 2 or more characters
  rightward of the correct location.

67:
  As reported by Winton Davies on a CMU CL mailing list 2000-01-10,
  and reported for SBCL by Martin Atzmueller 2000-10-20: (TRACE GETHASH)
  crashes SBCL. In general tracing anything which is used in the 
  implementation of TRACE is likely to have the same problem.

75:
  As reported by Martin Atzmueller on sbcl-devel 26 Dec 2000,
  ANSI says that WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING should have a keyword
  :ELEMENT-TYPE, but in sbcl-0.6.9 this is not defined for
  WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING.

78:
  ANSI says in one place that type declarations can be abbreviated even
  when the type name is not a symbol, e.g.
    (DECLAIM ((VECTOR T) *FOOVECTOR*))
  SBCL doesn't support this. But ANSI says in another place that this
  isn't allowed. So it's not clear this is a bug after all. (See the
  e-mail on cmucl-help@cons.org on 2001-01-16 and 2001-01-17 from WHN
  and Pierre Mai.)

79:
  as pointed out by Dan Barlow on sbcl-devel 2000-07-02:
  The PICK-TEMPORARY-FILE-NAME utility used by LOAD-FOREIGN uses
  an easily guessable temporary filename in a way which might open
  applications using LOAD-FOREIGN to hijacking by malicious users
  on the same machine. Incantations for doing this safely are
  floating around the net in various "how to write secure programs
  despite Unix" documents, and it would be good to (1) fix this in 
  LOAD-FOREIGN, and (2) hunt for any other code which uses temporary
  files and make it share the same new safe logic.

82: 
  Functions are assigned names based on the context in which they're
  defined. This is less than ideal for the functions which are
  used to implement CLOS methods. E.g. the output of 
  (DESCRIBE 'PRINT-OBJECT) lists functions like 
        #<FUNCTION "DEF!STRUCT (TRACE-INFO (:MAKE-LOAD-FORM-FUN SB-KERNEL:JUST-DUMP-IT-NORMALLY) (:PRINT-OBJECT #))" {1020E49}> 
  and
        #<FUNCTION "MACROLET ((FORCE-DELAYED-DEF!METHODS NIL #))" {1242871}>
  It would be better if these functions' names always identified
  them as methods, and identified their generic functions and
  specializers.

83:
  RANDOM-INTEGER-EXTRA-BITS=10 may not be large enough for the RANDOM
  RNG to be high quality near RANDOM-FIXNUM-MAX; it looks as though
  the mean of the distribution can be systematically O(0.1%) wrong.
  Just increasing R-I-E-B is probably not a good solution, since
  it would decrease efficiency more than is probably necessary. Perhaps
  using some sort of accept/reject method would be better.

85:
  Internally the compiler sometimes evaluates
    (sb-kernel:type/= (specifier-type '*) (specifier-type t))
  (I stumbled across this when I added an
    (assert (not (eq type1 *wild-type*)))
  in the NAMED :SIMPLE-= type method.) '* isn't really a type, and
  in a type context should probably be translated to T, and so it's
  probably wrong to ask whether it's equal to the T type and then (using
  the EQ type comparison in the NAMED :SIMPLE-= type method) return NIL.
  (I haven't tried to investigate this bug enough to guess whether
  there might be any user-level symptoms.)

  In fact, the type system is likely to depend on this inequality not
  holding... * is not equivalent to T in many cases, such as 
    (VECTOR *) /= (VECTOR T).

94a: 
  Inconsistencies between derived and declared VALUES return types for
  DEFUN aren't checked very well. E.g. the logic which successfully
  catches problems like
    (declaim (ftype (function (fixnum) float) foo))
    (defun foo (x)
      (declare (type integer x))
      (values x)) ; wrong return type, detected, gives warning, good!
  fails to catch
    (declaim (ftype (function (t) (values t t)) bar))
    (defun bar (x)
      (values x)) ; wrong number of return values, no warning, bad!
  The cause of this is seems to be that (1) the internal function 
  VALUES-TYPES-EQUAL-OR-INTERSECT used to make the check handles its
  arguments symmetrically, and (2) when the type checking code was
  written back when when SBCL's code was still CMU CL, the intent
  was that this case
    (declaim (ftype (function (t) t) bar))
    (defun bar (x)
      (values x x)) ; wrong number of return values; should give warning?
  not be warned for, because a two-valued return value is considered
  to be compatible with callers who expects a single value to be
  returned. That intent is probably not appropriate for modern ANSI
  Common Lisp, but fixing this might be complicated because of other
  divergences between auld-style and new-style handling of
  multiple-VALUES types. (Some issues related to this were discussed
  on cmucl-imp at some length sometime in 2000.)

95:
  The facility for dumping a running Lisp image to disk gets confused
  when run without the PURIFY option, and creates an unnecessarily large
  core file (apparently representing memory usage up to the previous
  high-water mark). Moreover, when the file is loaded, it confuses the
  GC, so that thereafter memory usage can never be reduced below that
  level.

98:
  In sbcl-0.6.11.41 (and in all earlier SBCL, and in CMU
  CL), out-of-line structure slot setters are horribly inefficient
  whenever the type of the slot is declared, because out-of-line
  structure slot setters are implemented as closures to save space,
  so the compiler doesn't compile the type test into code, but
  instead just saves the type in a lexical closure and interprets it
  at runtime.
    A proper solution involves deciding whether it's really worth
  saving space by implementing structure slot accessors as closures.
  (If it's not worth it, the problem vanishes automatically. If it
  is worth it, there are hacks we could use to force type tests to
  be compiled anyway, and even shared. E.g. we could implement
  an EQUAL hash table mapping from types to compiled type tests, 
  and save the appropriate compiled type test as part of each lexical
  closure; or we could make the lexical closures be placeholders
  which overwrite their old definition as a lexical closure with
  a new compiled definition the first time that they're called.)
    As a workaround for the problem, #'(SETF FOO) expressions can
  be replaced with (EFFICIENT-SETF-FUNCTION FOO), where
(defmacro efficient-setf-function (place-function-name)
  (or #+sbcl (and (sb-impl::info :function :accessor-for place-function-name)
                  ;; a workaround for the problem, encouraging the
                  ;; inline expansion of the structure accessor, so
                  ;; that the compiler can optimize its type test
                  (let ((new-value (gensym "NEW-VALUE-"))
                        (structure-value (gensym "STRUCTURE-VALUE-")))
                    `(lambda (,new-value ,structure-value)
                       (setf (,place-function-name ,structure-value)
                             ,new-value))))
      ;; no problem, can just use the ordinary expansion
      `(function (setf ,place-function-name))))

100:
  There's apparently a bug in CEILING optimization which caused 
  Douglas Crosher to patch the CMU CL version. Martin Atzmueller
  applied the patches to SBCL and they didn't seem to cause problems
  (as reported sbcl-devel 2001-05-04). However, since the patches
  modify nontrivial code which was apparently written incorrectly
  the first time around, until regression tests are written I'm not 
  comfortable merging the patches in the CVS version of SBCL.

108:
  (TIME (ROOM T)) reports more than 200 Mbytes consed even for
  a clean, just-started SBCL system. And it seems to be right:
  (ROOM T) can bring a small computer to its knees for a *long*
  time trying to GC afterwards. Surely there's some more economical
  way to implement (ROOM T).

115:
  reported by Martin Atzmueller 2001-06-25; originally from CMU CL bugs
  collection:
    (in-package :cl-user)
    ;;; The following invokes a compiler error.
    (declaim (optimize (speed 2) (debug 3)))
    (defun tst ()
      (flet ((m1 ()
               (unwind-protect nil)))
        (if (catch nil)
          (m1)
          (m1))))
  The error message in sbcl-0.6.12.42 is
    internal error, failed AVER:
      "(COMMON-LISP:EQ (SB!C::TN-ENVIRONMENT SB!C:TN) SB!C::TN-ENV)"

117:
  When the compiler inline expands functions, it may be that different
  kinds of return values are generated from different code branches.
  E.g. an inline expansion of POSITION generates integer results 
  from one branch, and NIL results from another. When that inline
  expansion is used in a context where only one of those results
  is acceptable, e.g.
    (defun foo (x)
      (aref *a1* (position x *a2*)))
  and the compiler can't prove that the unacceptable branch is 
  never taken, then bogus type mismatch warnings can be generated.
  If you need to suppress the type mismatch warnings, you can
  suppress the inline expansion,
    (defun foo (x)
      #+sbcl (declare (notinline position)) ; to suppress bug 117 bogowarnings
      (aref *a1* (position x *a2*)))
  or, sometimes, suppress them by declaring the result to be of an
  appropriate type,
    (defun foo (x)
      (aref *a1* (the integer (position x *a2*))))

  This is not a new compiler problem in 0.7.0, but the new compiler
  transforms for FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, and POSITION-IF make it 
  more conspicuous. If you don't need performance from these functions,
  and the bogus warnings are a nuisance for you, you can return to
  your pre-0.7.0 state of grace with
    #+sbcl (declaim (notinline find position find-if position-if)) ; bug 117..

118:
   as reported by Eric Marsden on cmucl-imp@cons.org 2001-08-14:
     (= (FLOAT 1 DOUBLE-FLOAT-EPSILON)
        (+ (FLOAT 1 DOUBLE-FLOAT-EPSILON) DOUBLE-FLOAT-EPSILON)) => T
   when of course it should be NIL. (He says it only fails for X86,
   not SPARC; dunno about Alpha.)

   Also, "the same problem exists for LONG-FLOAT-EPSILON,
   DOUBLE-FLOAT-NEGATIVE-EPSILON, LONG-FLOAT-NEGATIVE-EPSILON (though
   for the -negative- the + is replaced by a - in the test)."

   Raymond Toy comments that this is tricky on the X86 since its FPU
   uses 80-bit precision internally.

120b:
   Even in sbcl-0.pre7.x, which is supposed to be free of the old
   non-ANSI behavior of treating the function return type inferred
   from the current function definition as a declaration of the
   return type from any function of that name, the return type of NIL
   is attached to FOO in 120a above, and used to optimize code which
   calls FOO. 

124:
   As of version 0.pre7.14, SBCL's implementation of MACROLET makes
   the entire lexical environment at the point of MACROLET available
   in the bodies of the macroexpander functions. In particular, it
   allows the function bodies (which run at compile time) to try to
   access lexical variables (which are only defined at runtime).
   It doesn't even issue a warning, which is bad.

   The SBCL behavior arguably conforms to the ANSI spec (since the
   spec says that the behavior is undefined, ergo anything conforms).
   However, it would be better to issue a compile-time error.
   Unfortunately I (WHN) don't see any simple way to detect this
   condition in order to issue such an error, so for the meantime
   SBCL just does this weird broken "conforming" thing.

   The ANSI standard says, in the definition of the special operator
   MACROLET,
       The macro-expansion functions defined by MACROLET are defined
       in the lexical environment in which the MACROLET form appears.
       Declarations and MACROLET and SYMBOL-MACROLET definitions affect
       the local macro definitions in a MACROLET, but the consequences
       are undefined if the local macro definitions reference any
       local variable or function bindings that are visible in that
       lexical environment.
   Then it seems to contradict itself by giving the example
        (defun foo (x flag)
           (macrolet ((fudge (z)
                         ;The parameters x and flag are not accessible
                         ; at this point; a reference to flag would be to
                         ; the global variable of that name.
                         ` (if flag (* ,z ,z) ,z)))
            ;The parameters x and flag are accessible here.
             (+ x
                (fudge x)
                (fudge (+ x 1)))))
   The comment "a reference to flag would be to the global variable
   of the same name" sounds like good behavior for the system to have.
   but actual specification quoted above says that the actual behavior
   is undefined.

   (Since 0.7.8.23 macroexpanders are defined in a restricted version
   of the lexical environment, containing no lexical variables and
   functions, which seems to conform to ANSI and CLtL2, but signalling
   a STYLE-WARNING for references to variables similar to locals might
   be a good thing.)

125:
   (as reported by Gabe Garza on cmucl-help 2001-09-21)
        (defvar *tmp* 3)
        (defun test-pred (x y)
          (eq x y))
        (defun test-case ()
          (let* ((x *tmp*)
                 (func (lambda () x)))
            (print (eq func func))
            (print (test-pred func func))
            (delete func (list func))))
   Now calling (TEST-CASE) gives output
     NIL
     NIL
     (#<FUNCTION {500A9EF9}>)
   Evidently Python thinks of the lambda as a code transformation so
   much that it forgets that it's also an object.

127:
  The DEFSTRUCT section of the ANSI spec, in the :CONC-NAME section,
  specifies a precedence rule for name collisions between slot accessors of
  structure classes related by inheritance. As of 0.7.0, SBCL still 
  doesn't follow it.

135:
  Ideally, uninterning a symbol would allow it, and its associated
  FDEFINITION and PROCLAIM data, to be reclaimed by the GC. However,
  at least as of sbcl-0.7.0, this isn't the case. Information about
  FDEFINITIONs and PROCLAIMed properties is stored in globaldb.lisp
  essentially in ordinary (non-weak) hash tables keyed by symbols.
  Thus, once a system has an entry in this system, it tends to live
  forever, even when it is uninterned and all other references to it
  are lost.

136:
  (reported by Arnaud Rouanet on cmucl-imp 2001-12-18)
    (defmethod foo ((x integer))
      x)
    (defmethod foo :around ((x integer))
      (let ((x (1+ x)))
        (call-next-method)))
  Now (FOO 3) should return 3, but instead it returns 4.

141: 
  Pretty-printing nested backquotes doesn't work right, as 
  reported by Alexey Dejneka sbcl-devel 2002-01-13:
  * '``(FOO ,@',@S)
  ``(FOO SB-IMPL::BACKQ-COMMA-AT S)
  * (lisp-implementation-version)
  "0.pre7.129"

143:
  (reported by Jesse Bouwman 2001-10-24 through the unfortunately
  prominent SourceForge web/db bug tracking system, which is 
  unfortunately not a reliable way to get a timely response from
  the SBCL maintainers)
      In the course of trying to build a test case for an 
    application error, I encountered this behavior: 
      If you start up sbcl, and then lay on CTRL-C for a 
    minute or two, the lisp process will eventually say: 
         %PRIMITIVE HALT called; the party is over. 
    and throw you into the monitor. If I start up lisp, 
    attach to the process with strace, and then do the same 
    (abusive) thing, I get instead: 
         access failure in heap page not marked as write-protected 
    and the monitor again. I don't know enough to have the 
    faintest idea of what is going on here. 
      This is with sbcl 6.12, uname -a reports: 
         Linux prep 2.2.19 #4 SMP Tue Apr 24 13:59:52 CDT 2001 i686 unknown 
  I (WHN) have verified that the same thing occurs on sbcl-0.pre7.141
  under OpenBSD 2.9 on my X86 laptop. Do be patient when you try it:
  it took more than two minutes (but less than five) for me.

144: 
  (This was once known as IR1-4, but it lived on even after the
  IR1 interpreter went to the big bit bucket in the sky.)
  The system accepts DECLAIM in most places where DECLARE would be 
  accepted, without even issuing a warning. ANSI allows this, but since
  it's fairly easy to mistype DECLAIM instead of DECLARE, and the
  meaning is rather different, and it's unlikely that the user
  has a good reason for doing DECLAIM not at top level, it would be 
  good to issue a STYLE-WARNING when this happens. A possible
  fix would be to issue STYLE-WARNINGs for DECLAIMs not at top level,
  or perhaps to issue STYLE-WARNINGs for any EVAL-WHEN not at top level.
  [This is considered an IR1-interpreter-related bug because until
  EVAL-WHEN is rewritten, which won't happen until after the IR1
  interpreter is gone, the system's notion of what's a top-level form
  and what's not will remain too confused to fix this problem.]

145:
  ANSI allows types `(COMPLEX ,FOO) to use very hairy values for
  FOO, e.g. (COMPLEX (AND REAL (SATISFIES ODDP))). The old CMU CL
  COMPLEX implementation didn't deal with this, and hasn't been
  upgraded to do so. (This doesn't seem to be a high priority
  conformance problem, since seems hard to construct useful code
  where it matters.)

146:
  Floating point errors are reported poorly. E.g. on x86 OpenBSD
  with sbcl-0.7.1, 
        * (expt 2.0 12777)
        debugger invoked on condition of type SB-KERNEL:FLOATING-POINT-EXCEPTION:
          An arithmetic error SB-KERNEL:FLOATING-POINT-EXCEPTION was signalled.
        No traps are enabled? How can this be?
  It should be possible to be much more specific (overflow, division
  by zero, etc.) and of course the "How can this be?" should be fixable.

  See also bugs #45.c and #183

148:
  In sbcl-0.7.1.3 on x86, COMPILE-FILE on the file
    (in-package :cl-user)
    (defvar *thing*)
    (defvar *zoom*)
    (defstruct foo bar bletch)
    (defun %zeep ()
      (labels ((kidify1 (kid)
                 )
               (kid-frob (kid)
                 (if *thing*
                    (setf sweptm
                           (m+ (frobnicate kid)
                                     sweptm))
                    (kidify1 kid))))
      (declare (inline kid-frob))
      (map nil
           #'kid-frob
           (the simple-vector (foo-bar perd)))))
  fails with
    debugger invoked on condition of type TYPE-ERROR:
      The value NIL is not of type SB-C::NODE.
  The location of this failure has moved around as various related
  issues were cleaned up. As of sbcl-0.7.1.9, it occurs in
  NODE-BLOCK called by LAMBDA-COMPONENT called by IR2-CONVERT-CLOSURE.

  (Python LET-converts KIDIFY1 into KID-FROB, then tries to inline
  expand KID-FROB into %ZEEP. Having partially done it, it sees a call
  of KIDIFY1, which already does not exist. So it gives up on
  expansion, leaving garbage consisting of infinished blocks of the
  partially converted function.)

157:
  Functions SUBTYPEP, TYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE, and 
  UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE should have an optional environment argument.
  (reported by Alexey Dejneka sbcl-devel 2002-04-12)

162:
  (reported by Robert E. Brown 2002-04-16) 
  When a function is called with too few arguments, causing the
  debugger to be entered, the uninitialized slots in the bad call frame 
  seem to cause GCish problems, being interpreted as tagged data even
  though they're not. In particular, executing ROOM in the
  debugger at that point causes AVER failures:
    * (machine-type)
    "X86"
    * (lisp-implementation-version)
    "0.7.2.12"
    * (typep 10)
    ...
    0] (room)
    ...
    failed AVER: "(SAP= CURRENT END)"
  (Christophe Rhodes reports that this doesn't occur on the SPARC, which
  isn't too surprising since there are many differences in stack
  implementation and GC conservatism between the X86 and other ports.)

167:
  In sbcl-0.7.3.11, compiling the (illegal) code 
    (in-package :cl-user)
    (defmethod prove ((uustk uustk))
      (zap ((frob () nil))
        (frob)))
  gives the (not terribly clear) error message
    ; caught ERROR:
    ;   (during macroexpansion of (DEFMETHOD PROVE ...))
    ; can't get template for (FROB NIL NIL)
  The problem seems to be that the code walker used by the DEFMETHOD
  macro is unhappy with the illegal syntax in the method body, and
  is giving an unclear error message.

172:
  sbcl's treatment of at least macro lambda lists is too permissive;
  e.g., in sbcl-0.7.3.7:
    (defmacro foo (&rest rest bar) `(,bar ,rest))
    (macroexpand '(foo quux zot)) -> (QUUX (QUUX ZOT))
  whereas section 3.4.4 of the CLHS doesn't allow required parameters
  to come after the rest argument.

173:
  The compiler sometimes tries to constant-fold expressions before
  it checks to see whether they can be reached. This can lead to 
  bogus warnings about errors in the constant folding, e.g. in code
  like 
    (WHEN X
      (WRITE-STRING (> X 0) "+" "0"))
  compiled in a context where the compiler can prove that X is NIL,
  and the compiler complains that (> X 0) causes a type error because
  NIL isn't a valid argument to #'>. Until sbcl-0.7.4.10 or so this
  caused a full WARNING, which made the bug really annoying because then 
  COMPILE and COMPILE-FILE returned FAILURE-P=T for perfectly legal
  code. Since then the warning has been downgraded to STYLE-WARNING, 
  so it's still a bug but at least it's a little less annoying.

178: "AVER failure compiling confused THEs in FUNCALL"
  In sbcl-0.7.4.24, compiling
    (defun bug178 (x)
      (funcall (the function (the standard-object x))))
  gives
    failed AVER:
      "(AND (EQ (IR2-CONTINUATION-PRIMITIVE-TYPE 2CONT) FUNCTION-PTYPE) (EQ CHECK T))"
  This variant compiles OK, though:
    (defun bug178alternative (x)
      (funcall (the nil x)))

  (since 0.7.8.9 it does not signal an error; see also bug 199)

183: "IEEE floating point issues"
  Even where floating point handling is being dealt with relatively
  well (as of sbcl-0.7.5, on sparc/sunos and alpha; see bug #146), the
  accrued-exceptions and current-exceptions part of the fp control
  word don't seem to bear much relation to reality. E.g. on
  SPARC/SunOS:
  * (/ 1.0 0.0)

  debugger invoked on condition of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO:
    arithmetic error DIVISION-BY-ZERO signalled
  0] (sb-vm::get-floating-point-modes)

  (:TRAPS (:OVERFLOW :INVALID :DIVIDE-BY-ZERO)
          :ROUNDING-MODE :NEAREST
          :CURRENT-EXCEPTIONS NIL
          :ACCRUED-EXCEPTIONS (:INEXACT)
          :FAST-MODE NIL)
  0] abort
  * (sb-vm::get-floating-point-modes)
  (:TRAPS (:OVERFLOW :INVALID :DIVIDE-BY-ZERO)
          :ROUNDING-MODE :NEAREST
          :CURRENT-EXCEPTIONS (:INEXACT)
          :ACCRUED-EXCEPTIONS (:INEXACT)
          :FAST-MODE NIL)

187: "type inference confusion around DEFTRANSFORM time"
  (reported even more verbosely on sbcl-devel 2002-06-28 as "strange
  bug in DEFTRANSFORM")
  After the file below is compiled and loaded in sbcl-0.7.5, executing
    (TCX (MAKE-ARRAY 4 :FILL-POINTER 2) 0)
  at the REPL returns an adjustable vector, which is wrong. Presumably
  somehow the DERIVE-TYPE information for the output values of %WAD is
  being mispropagated as a type constraint on the input values of %WAD,
  and so causing the type test to be optimized away. It's unclear how
  hand-expanding the DEFTRANSFORM would change this, but it suggests
  the DEFTRANSFORM machinery (or at least the way DEFTRANSFORMs are
  invoked at a particular phase) is involved.
    (cl:in-package :sb-c)
    (eval-when (:compile-toplevel)
    ;;; standin for %DATA-VECTOR-AND-INDEX
    (defknown %dvai (array index) 
      (values t t) 
      (foldable flushable))
    (deftransform %dvai ((array index)
                         (vector t)
                         *
                         :important t)
      (let* ((atype (continuation-type array))
             (eltype (array-type-specialized-element-type atype)))
        (when (eq eltype *wild-type*)
          (give-up-ir1-transform
           "specialized array element type not known at compile-time"))
        (when (not (array-type-complexp atype))
          (give-up-ir1-transform "SIMPLE array!"))
        `(if (array-header-p array)
             (%wad array index nil)
             (values array index))))
    ;;; standin for %WITH-ARRAY-DATA
    (defknown %wad (array index (or index null))
      (values (simple-array * (*)) index index index)
      (foldable flushable))
    ;;; (Commenting out this optimizer causes the bug to go away.)
    (defoptimizer (%wad derive-type) ((array start end))
      (let ((atype (continuation-type array)))
        (when (array-type-p atype)
          (values-specifier-type
           `(values (simple-array ,(type-specifier
                                    (array-type-specialized-element-type atype))
                                  (*))
                    index index index)))))
    ) ; EVAL-WHEN
    (defun %wad (array start end)
      (format t "~&in %WAD~%")
      (%with-array-data array start end))
    (cl:in-package :cl-user)
    (defun tcx (v i)
      (declare (type (vector t) v))
      (declare (notinline sb-kernel::%with-array-data))
      ;; (Hand-expending DEFTRANSFORM %DVAI here also causes the bug to
      ;; go away.) 
      (sb-c::%dvai v i))

188: "compiler performance fiasco involving type inference and UNION-TYPE"
  (In sbcl-0.7.6.10, DEFTRANSFORM CONCATENATE was commented out until this
  bug could be fixed properly, so you won't see the bug unless you restore
  the DEFTRANSFORM by hand.) In sbcl-0.7.5.11 on a 700 MHz Pentium III, 
    (time (compile
           nil
           '(lambda ()
              (declare (optimize (safety 3)))
              (declare (optimize (compilation-speed 2)))
              (declare (optimize (speed 1) (debug 1) (space 1)))
              (let ((fn "if-this-file-exists-the-universe-is-strange"))
                (load fn :if-does-not-exist nil)
                (load (concatenate 'string fn ".lisp") :if-does-not-exist nil)
                (load (concatenate 'string fn ".fasl") :if-does-not-exist nil)
                (load (concatenate 'string fn ".misc-garbage")
                      :if-does-not-exist nil)))))
  reports  
                 134.552 seconds of real time
                 133.35156 seconds of user run time
                 0.03125 seconds of system run time
                   [Run times include 2.787 seconds GC run time.]
                 0 page faults and
                 246883368 bytes consed.
  BACKTRACE from Ctrl-C in the compilation shows that the compiler is
  thinking about type relationships involving types like
     #<UNION-TYPE
       (OR (INTEGER 576 576)
           (INTEGER 1192 1192)
           (INTEGER 2536 2536)
           (INTEGER 1816 1816)
           (INTEGER 2752 2752)
           (INTEGER 1600 1600)
           (INTEGER 2640 2640)
           (INTEGER 1808 1808)
           (INTEGER 1296 1296)
           ...)>)[:EXTERNAL]

190: "PPC/Linux pipe? buffer? bug"
  In sbcl-0.7.6, the run-program.test.sh test script sometimes hangs
  on the PPC/Linux platform, waiting for a zombie env process.  This
  is a classic symptom of buffer filling and deadlock, but it seems
  only sporadically reproducible.

191: "Miscellaneous PCL deficiencies"
  (reported by Alexey Dejneka sbcl-devel 2002-08-04)
  a. DEFCLASS does not inform the compiler about generated
     functions. Compiling a file with
       (DEFCLASS A-CLASS ()
         ((A-CLASS-X)))
       (DEFUN A-CLASS-X (A)
         (WITH-SLOTS (A-CLASS-X) A
           A-CLASS-X))
     results in a STYLE-WARNING:
       undefined-function 
         SB-SLOT-ACCESSOR-NAME::|COMMON-LISP-USER A-CLASS-X slot READER|

     APD's fix for this was checked in to sbcl-0.7.6.20, but Pierre
     Mai points out that the declamation of functions is in fact
     incorrect in some cases (most notably for structure
     classes).  This means that at present erroneous attempts to use
     WITH-SLOTS and the like on classes with metaclass STRUCTURE-CLASS
     won't get the corresponding STYLE-WARNING.
  c. the examples in CLHS 7.6.5.1 (regarding generic function lambda
     lists and &KEY arguments) do not signal errors when they should.

192: "Python treats free type declarations as promises."
  b. What seemed like the same fundamental problem as bug 192a, but
     was not fixed by the same (APD "more strict type checking
     sbcl-devel 2002-08-97) patch:
     (DOTIMES (I ...) (DOTIMES (J ...) (DECLARE ...) ...)):
       (declaim (optimize (speed 1) (safety 3)))
       (defun trust-assertion (i)
         (dotimes (j i)
           (declare (type (mod 4) i)) ; when commented out, behavior changes!
           (unless (< i 5)
             (print j))))
       (trust-assertion 6) ; prints nothing unless DECLARE is commented out

     (see bug 203)

193: "unhelpful CLOS error reporting when the primary method is missing"
  In sbcl-0.7.7, when
    (defmethod foo :before ((x t)) (print x))
  is the only method defined on FOO, the error reporting when e.g.
    (foo 12)
  is relatively unhelpful:
    There is no primary method for the generic function
      #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION FOO (1)>.
  with the offending argument nowhere visible in the backtrace. This 
  continues even if there *are* primary methods, just not for the 
  specified arg type, e.g. 
    (defmethod foo ((x character)) (print x))
    (defmethod foo ((x string)) (print x))
    (defmethod foo ((x pathname)) ...)
  In that case it could be very helpful to know what argument value is
  falling through the cracks of the defined primary methods, but the
  error message stays the same (even BACKTRACE doesn't tell you what the
  bad argument value is).

194: "no error from (THE REAL '(1 2 3)) in some cases"
  fixed parts:
    a. In sbcl-0.7.7.9, 
         (multiple-value-prog1 (progn (the real '(1 2 3))))
       returns (1 2 3) instead of signalling an error. This was fixed by 
       APD's "more strict type checking patch", but although the fixed
       code (in sbcl-0.7.7.19) works (signals TYPE-ERROR) interactively,
       it's difficult to write a regression test for it, because 
       (IGNORE-ERRORS (MULTIPLE-VALUE-PROG1 (PROGN (THE REAL '(1 2 3)))))
       still returns (1 2 3).
  still-broken parts:  
    b. (IGNORE-ERRORS (MULTIPLE-VALUE-PROG1 (PROGN (THE REAL '(1 2 3)))))    
       returns (1 2 3). (As above, this shows up when writing regression
       tests for fixed-ness of part a.)
    c. Also in sbcl-0.7.7.9, (IGNORE-ERRORS (THE REAL '(1 2 3))) => (1 2 3).
    d. At the REPL,
         (null (ignore-errors
           (let ((arg1 1)
                 (arg2 (identity (the real #(1 2 3)))))
             (if (< arg1 arg2) arg1 arg2))))
           => T
      but putting the same expression inside (DEFUN FOO () ...),
      (FOO) => NIL.
  notes:
    * Actually this entry is probably multiple bugs, as
      Alexey Dejneka commented on sbcl-devel 2002-09-03:)
        I don't think that placing these two bugs in one entry is
        a good idea: they have different explanations. The second
        (min 1 nil) is caused by flushing of unused code--IDENTITY
        can do nothing with it. So it is really bug 122. The first
        (min nil) is due to M-V-PROG1: substituting a continuation
        for the result, it forgets about type assertion. The purpose
        of IDENTITY is to save the restricted continuation from
        inaccurate transformations.
    * Alexey Dejneka pointed out that
        (IGNORE-ERRORS (IDENTITY (THE REAL '(1 2 3))))
      works as it should. Also
        (IGNORE-ERRORS (VALUES (THE REAL '(1 2 3))))
      works as it should. Perhaps this is another case of VALUES type
      intersections behaving in non-useful ways?

199: "hairy FUNCTION types confuse the compiler"
  (reported by APD sbcl-devel 2002-09-15)
    (DEFUN MUR (F)
      (EQ NIL (FUNCALL F)))

    (DEFUN FOO (F X)
      (DECLARE (TYPE (AND FUNCTION (SATISFIES MUR)) F))
      (FUNCALL F X))

  fails to compile, printing
    failed AVER:
      "(AND (EQ (IR2-CONTINUATION-PRIMITIVE-TYPE 2CONT) FUNCTION-PTYPE) (EQ CHECK T))"

  APD further reports that this bug is not present in CMUCL.

  (this case was fixed in 0.7.8.9; see also bug 178)

201: "Incautious type inference from compound CONS types"
  (reported by APD sbcl-devel 2002-09-17)
    (DEFUN FOO (X)
      (LET ((Y (CAR (THE (CONS INTEGER *) X))))
        (SETF (CAR X) NIL)
        (FORMAT NIL "~S IS ~S, Y = ~S"
                (CAR X)
                (TYPECASE (CAR X)
                  (INTEGER 'INTEGER)
                  (T '(NOT INTEGER)))
                Y)))

    (FOO ' (1 . 2)) => "NIL IS INTEGER, Y = 1"

203:
  Compiler does not check THEs on unused values, e.g. in

    (progn (the real (list 1)) t)

  This situation may appear during optimizing away degenerate cases of
  certain functions: see bugs 54, 192b.

205: "environment issues in cross compiler"
  (These bugs have no impact on user code, but should be fixed or
  documented.)
  a. Macroexpanders introduced with MACROLET are defined in the null
     lexical environment.
  b. The body of (EVAL-WHEN (:COMPILE-TOPLEVEL) ...) is evaluated in
     the null lexical environment.

206: ":SB-FLUID feature broken"
  (reported by Antonio Martinez-Shotton sbcl-devel 2002-10-07)
  Enabling :SB-FLUID in the target-features list in sbcl-0.7.8 breaks
  the build.

207: "poorly distributed SXHASH results for compound data"
  SBCL's SXHASH could probably try a little harder. ANSI: "the
  intent is that an implementation should make a good-faith
  effort to produce hash-codes that are well distributed
  within the range of non-negative fixnums". But
        (let ((hits (make-hash-table)))
          (dotimes (i 16)
            (dotimes (j 16)
              (let* ((ij (cons i j))
                     (newlist (push ij (gethash (sxhash ij) hits))))
                (when (cdr newlist)
                  (format t "~&collision: ~S~%" newlist))))))
  reports lots of collisions in sbcl-0.7.8. A stronger MIX function
  would be an obvious way of fix. Maybe it would be acceptably efficient
  to redo MIX using a lookup into a 256-entry s-box containing
  29-bit pseudorandom numbers?

208: "package confusion in PCL handling of structure slot handlers"
  In sbcl-0.7.8 compiling and loading 
        (in-package :cl)
        (defstruct foo (slot (error "missing")) :type list :read-only t)
        (defmethod print-object ((foo foo) stream) (print nil stream))
  causes CERROR "attempting to modify a symbol in the COMMON-LISP
  package: FOO-SLOT". (This is fairly bad code, but still it's hard
  to see that it should cause symbols to be interned in the CL package.)

211: "keywords processing"
  a. :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS T should allow a function to receive an odd
     number of keyword arguments.
  e. Compiling

      (flet ((foo (&key y) (list y)))
        (list (foo :y 1 :y 2)))

     issues confusing message

       ; in: LAMBDA NIL
       ;     (FOO :Y 1 :Y 2)
       ; 
       ; caught STYLE-WARNING:
       ;   The variable #:G15 is defined but never used.

212: "Sequence functions and circular arguments"
  COERCE, MERGE and CONCATENATE go into an infinite loop when given
  circular arguments; it would be good for the user if they could be
  given an error instead (ANSI 17.1.1 allows this behaviour on the part
  of the implementation, as conforming code cannot give non-proper
  sequences to these functions.  MAP also has this problem (and
  solution), though arguably the convenience of being able to do 
    (MAP 'LIST '+ FOO '#1=(1 . #1#)) 
  might be classed as more important (though signalling an error when
  all of the arguments are circular is probably desireable).

213: "Sequence functions and type checking"
  a. MAKE-SEQUENCE, COERCE, MERGE and CONCATENATE cannot deal with
     various complicated, though recognizeable, CONS types [e.g. 
       (CONS * (CONS * NULL))
     which according to ANSI should be recognized] (and, in SAFETY 3
     code, should return a list of LENGTH 2 or signal an error)
  b. MAP, when given a type argument that is SUBTYPEP LIST, does not
     check that it will return a sequence of the given type.  Fixing
     it along the same lines as the others (cf. work done around
     sbcl-0.7.8.45) is possible, but doing so efficiently didn't look
     entirely straightforward.
  c. All of these functions will silently accept a type of the form
       (CONS INTEGER *)
     whether or not the return value is of this type.  This is
     probably permitted by ANSI (see "Exceptional Situations" under
     ANSI MAKE-SEQUENCE), but the DERIVE-TYPE mechanism does not 
     know about this escape clause, so code of the form
       (INTEGERP (CAR (MAKE-SEQUENCE '(CONS INTEGER *) 2)))
     can erroneously return T.

214:
  SBCL 0.6.12.43 fails to compile

  (locally
      (declare (optimize (inhibit-warnings 0) (compilation-speed 2)))
    (flet ((foo (&key (x :vx x-p)) (list x x-p)))
      (foo 1 2)))

  or a more simple example:

  (locally
      (declare (optimize (inhibit-warnings 0) (compilation-speed 2)))
    (lambda (x) (declare (fixnum x)) (if (< x 0) 0 (1- x))))

215: ":TEST-NOT handling by functions"
  a. FIND and POSITION currently signal errors when given non-NIL for
     both their :TEST and (deprecated) :TEST-NOT arguments, but by
     ANSI 17.2 "the consequences are unspecified", which by ANSI 1.4.2
     means that the effect is "unpredictable but harmless".  It's not
     clear what that actually means; it may preclude conforming
     implementations from signalling errors.
  b. COUNT, REMOVE and the like give priority to a :TEST-NOT argument
     when conflict occurs.  As a quality of implementation issue, it
     might be preferable to treat :TEST and :TEST-NOT as being in some
     sense the same &KEY, and effectively take the first test function in
     the argument list.
  c. Again, a quality of implementation issue: it would be good to issue a
     STYLE-WARNING at compile-time for calls with :TEST-NOT, and a
     WARNING for calls with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT; possibly this
     latter should be WARNed about at execute-time too.

216: "debugger confused by frames with invalid number of arguments"
  In sbcl-0.7.8.51, executing e.g. (VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND T), BACKTRACE, Q
  leaves the system confused, enough so that (QUIT) no longer works.
  It's as though the process of working with the uninitialized slot in
  the bad VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND frame causes GC problems, though that may
  not be the actual problem. (CMU CL 18c doesn't have problems with this.)

217: "Bad type operations with FUNCTION types"
  In sbcl.0.7.7:

    * (values-type-union (specifier-type '(function (base-char)))
                         (specifier-type '(function (integer))))

    #<FUN-TYPE (FUNCTION (BASE-CHAR) *)>

  It causes insertion of wrong type assertions into generated
  code. E.g.

    (defun foo (x s)
      (let ((f (etypecase x
                 (character #'write-char)
                 (integer #'write-byte))))
        (funcall f x s)
        (etypecase x
          (character (write-char x s))
          (integer (write-byte x s)))))

   Then (FOO #\1 *STANDARD-OUTPUT*) signals type error.

  (In 0.7.9.1 the result type is (FUNCTION * *), so Python does not
  produce invalid code, but type checking is not accurate. Similar
  problems exist with VALUES-TYPE-INTERSECTION.)

218: "VALUES type specifier semantics"
  (THE (VALUES ...) ...) in safe code discards extra values.

  (defun test (x y) (the (values integer) (truncate x y)))
  (test 10 4) => 2

219: "DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO in non-toplevel contexts evaluated at compile-time"
  In sbcl-0.7.9:

  * (defun foo (x) 
      (when x
        (define-compiler-macro bar (&whole whole)
          (declare (ignore whole))
          (print "expanding compiler macro")
          1)))
  FOO
  * (defun baz (x) (bar))
  [ ... ]
  "expanding compiler macro"
  BAZ
  * (baz t)
  1

220: 
  Sbcl 0.7.9 fails to compile

  (multiple-value-call #'list
    (the integer (helper))
    nil)

  Type check for INTEGER is inserted, the result of which serves as
  the first argument of M-V-C, is inserted after evaluation of NIL. So
  arguments of M-V-C are pushed in the wrong order. As a temporary
  workaround type checking was disabled for M-V-Cs in 0.7.9.13. A
  better solution would be to put a check between evaluation of
  arguments, but it could be tricky to check result types of PROG1, IF
  etc.


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