-REPORTING BUGS
+tREPORTING BUGS
Bugs can be reported on the help mailing list
sbcl-help@lists.sourceforge.net
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
48:
SYMBOL-MACROLET bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde July 25, 2000:
- a: (SYMBOL-MACROLET ((T TRUE)) ..) should probably signal
- PROGRAM-ERROR, but SBCL accepts it instead.
- b: SYMBOL-MACROLET should refuse to bind something which is
- declared as a global variable, signalling PROGRAM-ERROR.
c: SYMBOL-MACROLET should signal PROGRAM-ERROR if something
it binds is declared SPECIAL inside.
the new output block should start indented 2 or more characters
rightward of the correct location.
-65:
- (probably related to bug #70; maybe related to bug #109)
- As reported by Carl Witty on submit@bugs.debian.org 1999-05-08,
- compiling this file
-(in-package "CL-USER")
-(defun equal-terms (termx termy)
- (labels
- ((alpha-equal-bound-term-lists (listx listy)
- (or (and (null listx) (null listy))
- (and listx listy
- (let ((bindings-x (bindings-of-bound-term (car listx)))
- (bindings-y (bindings-of-bound-term (car listy))))
- (if (and (null bindings-x) (null bindings-y))
- (alpha-equal-terms (term-of-bound-term (car listx))
- (term-of-bound-term (car listy)))
- (and (= (length bindings-x) (length bindings-y))
- (prog2
- (enter-binding-pairs (bindings-of-bound-term (car listx))
- (bindings-of-bound-term (car listy)))
- (alpha-equal-terms (term-of-bound-term (car listx))
- (term-of-bound-term (car listy)))
- (exit-binding-pairs (bindings-of-bound-term (car listx))
- (bindings-of-bound-term (car listy)))))))
- (alpha-equal-bound-term-lists (cdr listx) (cdr listy)))))
-
- (alpha-equal-terms (termx termy)
- (if (and (variable-p termx)
- (variable-p termy))
- (equal-bindings (id-of-variable-term termx)
- (id-of-variable-term termy))
- (and (equal-operators-p (operator-of-term termx) (operator-of-term termy))
- (alpha-equal-bound-term-lists (bound-terms-of-term termx)
- (bound-terms-of-term termy))))))
-
- (or (eq termx termy)
- (and termx termy
- (with-variable-invocation (alpha-equal-terms termx termy))))))
- causes an assertion failure
- The assertion (EQ (C::LAMBDA-TAIL-SET C::CALLER)
- (C::LAMBDA-TAIL-SET (C::LAMBDA-HOME C::CALLEE))) failed.
-
- Bob Rogers reports (1999-07-28 on cmucl-imp@cons.org) a smaller test
- case with the same problem:
-(defun parse-fssp-alignment ()
- ;; Given an FSSP alignment file named by the argument . . .
- (labels ((get-fssp-char ()
- (get-fssp-char))
- (read-fssp-char ()
- (get-fssp-char)))
- ;; Stub body, enough to tickle the bug.
- (list (read-fssp-char)
- (read-fssp-char))))
-
66:
ANSI specifies that the RESULT-TYPE argument of CONCATENATE must be
a subtype of SEQUENCE, but CONCATENATE doesn't check this properly:
doesn't seem to exist for sequence types:
(DEFTYPE BAR () 'SIMPLE-VECTOR)
(CONCATENATE 'BAR #(1 2) '(3)) => #(1 2 3)
+ See also bug #46a./b., and discussion and patch sbcl-devel and
+ cmucl-imp 2002-07
67:
As reported by Winton Davies on a CMU CL mailing list 2000-01-10,
crashes SBCL. In general tracing anything which is used in the
implementation of TRACE is likely to have the same problem.
-70:
- (probably related to bug #65; maybe related to bug #109)
- The compiler doesn't like &OPTIONAL arguments in LABELS and FLET
- forms. E.g.
- (DEFUN FIND-BEFORE (ITEM SEQUENCE &KEY (TEST #'EQL))
- (LABELS ((FIND-ITEM (OBJ SEQ TEST &OPTIONAL (VAL NIL))
- (LET ((ITEM (FIRST SEQ)))
- (COND ((NULL SEQ)
- (VALUES NIL NIL))
- ((FUNCALL TEST OBJ ITEM)
- (VALUES VAL SEQ))
- (T
- (FIND-ITEM OBJ (REST SEQ) TEST (NCONC VAL `(,ITEM))))))))
- (FIND-ITEM ITEM SEQUENCE TEST)))
- from David Young's bug report on cmucl-help@cons.org 30 Nov 2000
- causes sbcl-0.6.9 to fail with
- error in function SB-KERNEL:ASSERT-ERROR:
- The assertion (EQ (SB-C::LAMBDA-TAIL-SET SB-C::CALLER)
- (SB-C::LAMBDA-TAIL-SET
- (SB-C::LAMBDA-HOME SB-C::CALLEE))) failed.
-
72:
(DECLAIM (OPTIMIZE ..)) doesn't work properly inside LOCALLY forms.
(I haven't tried to investigate this bug enough to guess whether
there might be any user-level symptoms.)
-90:
- a latent cross-compilation/bootstrapping bug: The cross-compilation
- host's CL:CHAR-CODE-LIMIT is used in target code in readtable.lisp
- and possibly elsewhere. Instead, we should use the target system's
- CHAR-CODE-LIMIT. This will probably cause problems if we try to
- bootstrap on a system which uses a different value of CHAR-CODE-LIMIT
- than SBCL does.
-
94a:
Inconsistencies between derived and declared VALUES return types for
DEFUN aren't checked very well. E.g. the logic which successfully
GC, so that thereafter memory usage can never be reduced below that
level.
-96:
- The TRACE facility can't be used on some kinds of functions.
- (Basically, the breakpoint facility was incompletely implemented
- in the X86 port of CMU CL, and hasn't been fixed in SBCL.)
-
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
the first time around, until regression tests are written I'm not
comfortable merging the patches in the CVS version of SBCL.
-102:
- As reported by Arthur Lemmens sbcl-devel 2001-05-05, ANSI
- requires that SYMBOL-MACROLET refuse to rebind special variables,
- but SBCL doesn't do this. (Also as reported by AL in the same
- message, SBCL depended on this nonconforming behavior to build
- itself, because of the way that **CURRENT-SEGMENT** was implemented.
- As of sbcl-0.7.3.x, this dependence on the nonconforming behavior
- has been fixed, but the nonconforming behavior remains.)
-
104:
(DESCRIBE 'SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-TYPE) reports the macro argument list
incorrectly:
time trying to GC afterwards. Surely there's some more economical
way to implement (ROOM T).
-109:
- reported by Martin Atzmueller 2001-06-25; originally from CMU CL bugs
- collection:
- ;;; This file fails to compile.
- ;;; Maybe this bug is related to bugs #65, #70 in the BUGS file.
- (in-package :cl-user)
- (defun tst2 ()
- (labels
- ((eff (&key trouble)
- (eff)
- ;; nil
- ;; Uncomment and it works
- ))
- (eff)))
- In SBCL 0.6.12.42, the problem is
- internal error, failed AVER:
- "(COMMON-LISP:EQ (SB!C::LAMBDA-TAIL-SET SB!C::CALLER)
- (SB!C::LAMBDA-TAIL-SET (SB!C::LAMBDA-HOME SB!C::CALLEE)))"
-
110:
reported by Martin Atzmueller 2001-06-25; originally from CMU CL bugs
collection:
#+NIL) and I'd like to go back to see whether this really is
a compiler bug before I delete this BUGS entry.
-123:
- The *USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES* hack causes bugs, particularly
- (IN-PACKAGE :SB-KERNEL)
- (TYPE= (SPECIFIER-TYPE '(VECTOR T))
- (SPECIFIER-TYPE '(VECTOR UNDEFTYPE)))
- Then because of this, the compiler bogusly optimizes
- (TYPEP #(11) '(SIMPLE-ARRAY UNDEF-TYPE 1))
- to T. Unfortunately, just setting *USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES* to
- NIL around sbcl-0.pre7.14.flaky4.12 didn't work: the compiler complained
- about type mismatches (probably harmlessly, another instance of bug 117);
- and then cold init died with a segmentation fault.
-
124:
As of version 0.pre7.14, SBCL's implementation of MACROLET makes
the entire lexical environment at the point of MACROLET available
(let ((x (1+ x)))
(call-next-method)))
Now (FOO 3) should return 3, but instead it returns 4.
-
-137:
- (SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE) output should start with something
- including the name BACKTRACE, not (as in 0.pre7.88)
- just "0: (\"hairy arg processor\" ...)". Until about
- sbcl-0.pre7.109, the names in BACKTRACE were all screwed
- up compared to the nice useful names in sbcl-0.6.13.
- Around sbcl-0.pre7.109, they were mostly fixed by using
- NAMED-LAMBDA to implement DEFUN. However, there are still
- some screwups left, e.g. as of sbcl-0.pre7.109, there are
- still some functions named "hairy arg processor" and
- "SB-INT:&MORE processor".
+
+140:
+ (reported by Alexey Dejneka sbcl-devel 2002-01-03)
+
+ SUBTYPEP does not work well with redefined classes:
+ ---
+ * (defclass a () ())
+ #<STANDARD-CLASS A>
+ * (defclass b () ())
+ #<STANDARD-CLASS B>
+ * (subtypep 'b 'a)
+ NIL
+ T
+ * (defclass b (a) ())
+ #<STANDARD-CLASS B>
+ * (subtypep 'b 'a)
+ T
+ T
+ * (defclass b () ())
+ #<STANDARD-CLASS B>
+
+ ;;; And now...
+ * (subtypep 'b 'a)
+ T
+ T
+
+ This bug was fixed in sbcl-0.7.4.1 by invalidating the PCL wrapper
+ class upon redefinition. Unfortunately, doing so causes bug #176 to
+ appear. Pending further investication, one or other of these bugs
+ might be present at any given time.
141:
Pretty-printing nested backquotes doesn't work right, as
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)
Is (1 . 1) of type CONS a cons? => NIL
without signalling an error.
-154:
- There's some sort of problem with aborting back out of the debugger
- after a %DETECT-STACK-EXHAUSTION error in sbcl-0.7.1.38. In some cases
- telling the debugger to ABORT doesn't get you back to the main REPL,
- but instead just gives you another stack exhaustion error. The problem
- doesn't occur in the trivial case
- * (defun frob () (frob) (frob))
- FROB
- * (frob)
- but it has happened in more complicated cases (which I haven't
- figured out how to reproduce).
-
-156:
- FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION doesn't work right in 0.7.0 or 0.7.2.9:
- * (function-lambda-expression #'(lambda (x) x))
- debugger invoked on condition of type TYPE-ERROR:
- The value NIL is not of type SB-C::DEBUG-SOURCE
- (reported by Alexey Dejneka sbcl-devel 2002-04-12)
-
157:
Functions SUBTYPEP, TYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE, and
UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE should have an optional environment argument.
isn't too surprising since there are many differences in stack
implementation and GC conservatism between the X86 and other ports.)
-165:
- Array types with element-types of some unknown type are falsely being
- assumed to be of type (ARRAY T) by the compiler in some cases. The
- following code demonstrates the problem:
-
- (defun foo (x)
- (declare (type (vector bar) x))
- (aref x 1))
- (deftype bar () 'single-float)
- (foo (make-array 3 :element-type 'bar))
- -> TYPE-ERROR "The value #(0.0 0.0 0.0) is not of type (VECTOR BAR)."
- (typep (make-array 3 :element-type 'bar) '(vector bar))
- -> T
-
- The easy solution is to make the functions which depend on knowing
- the upgraded-array-element-type (in compiler/array-tran and
- compiler/generic/vm-tran as of sbcl-0.7.3.x) be slightly smarter about
- unknown types; an alternative is to have the
- specialized-element-type slot in the ARRAY-TYPE structure be
- *WILD-TYPE* for UNKNOWN-TYPE element types.
-
166:
Compiling
(in-package :cl-user)
(defclass c0 (b) ())
(make-instance 'c19)
-177:
- (fixed in sbcl-0.7.4.24)
+ See also bug #140.
178: "AVER failure compiling confused THEs in FUNCALL"
In sbcl-0.7.4.24, compiling
(defun bug178alternative (x)
(funcall (the nil x)))
-179:
- Reported by Miles Egan on sbcl-devel 11 June 2002:
- In sbcl-0.7.4.x, doing
- $ touch /tmp/bad\*
- $ sbcl
- * (directory "/tmp/*")
- yields an error: "bad place for a wild pathname"
+181: "bad type specifier drops compiler into debugger"
+ Compiling
+ (in-package :cl-user)
+ (defun bar (x)
+ (declare (type 0 x))
+ (cons x x))
+ signals
+ bad thing to be a type specifier: 0
+ which seems fine, but also enters the debugger (instead of having
+ the compiler handle the error, convert it into a COMPILER-ERROR, and
+ continue compiling) which seems wrong.
+
+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)
+
+185: "top-level forms at the REPL"
+ * (locally (defstruct foo (a 0 :type fixnum)))
+ gives an error:
+ ; caught ERROR:
+ ; (in macroexpansion of (SB-KERNEL::%DELAYED-GET-COMPILER-LAYOUT BAR))
+ however, compiling and loading the same expression in a file works
+ as expected.
+
+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 Dejenka 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|
+ c. the examples in CLHS 7.6.5.1 (regarding generic function lambda
+ lists and &KEY arguments) do not signal errors when they should.
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