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
an error may be signalled at read time and it would be good if
SBCL did it.
- c: Reading of not initialized slot sometimes causes SEGV (for inline
- accessors it is fixed, but out-of-line still do not perform type
- check).
-
- d:
- (declaim (optimize (safety 3) (speed 1) (space 1)))
- (defstruct foo
- x y)
- (defstruct (stringwise-foo (:include foo
- (x "x" :type simple-string)
- (y "y" :type simple-string))))
- (defparameter *stringwise-foo*
- (make-stringwise-foo))
- (setf (foo-x *stringwise-foo*) 0)
- (defun frob-stringwise-foo (sf)
- (aref (stringwise-foo-x sf) 0))
- (frob-stringwise-foo *stringwise-foo*)
- SEGV.
+ d: (fixed in 0.8.1.5)
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 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)
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 on the x86 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)
(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").
-
60:
The debugger LIST-LOCATIONS command doesn't work properly.
+ (How should it work properly?)
61:
Compiling and loading
then requesting a BACKTRACE at the debugger prompt gives no information
about where in the user program the problem occurred.
-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
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.
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
GC, so that thereafter memory usage can never be reduced below that
level.
+ (As of 0.8.7.3 it's likely that the latter half of this bug is fixed.
+ The interaction between gencgc and the variables used by
+ save-lisp-and-die is still nonoptimal, though, so no respite from
+ big core files yet)
+
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
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
+ To exercise the problem, compile and load
+ (cl:in-package :cl-user)
+ (defstruct foo
+ (bar (error "missing") :type bar))
+ (defvar *foo*)
+ (defun wastrel1 (x)
+ (loop (setf (foo-bar *foo*) x)))
+ (defstruct bar)
+ (defvar *bar* (make-bar))
+ (defvar *foo* (make-foo :bar *bar*))
+ (defvar *setf-foo-bar* #'(setf foo-bar))
+ (defun wastrel2 (x)
+ (loop (funcall *setf-foo-bar* x *foo*)))
+ then run (WASTREL1 *BAR*) or (WASTREL2 *BAR*), hit Ctrl-C, and
+ use BACKTRACE, to see it's spending all essentially all its time
+ in %TYPEP and VALUES-SPECIFIER-TYPE and so forth.
+ One possible solution would be simply to give up on
+ representing structure slot accessors as functions, and represent
+ them as macroexpansions instead. This can be inconvenient for users,
+ but it's not clear that it's worse than trying to help by expanding
+ into a horribly inefficient implementation.
+ 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)
+ (or #+sbcl (and (sb-int: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
time trying to GC afterwards. Surely there's some more economical
way to implement (ROOM T).
+ Daniel Barlow doesn't know what fixed this, but observes that it
+ doesn't seem to be the case in 0.8.7.3 any more. Instead, (ROOM T)
+ in a fresh SBCL causes
+
+ debugger invoked on a SB-INT:BUG in thread 5911:
+ failed AVER: "(SAP= CURRENT END)"
+
+ unless a GC has happened beforehand.
+
117:
When the compiler inline expands functions, it may be that different
kinds of return values are generated from different code branches.
your pre-0.7.0 state of grace with
#+sbcl (declaim (notinline find position find-if position-if)) ; bug 117..
+ (see also bug 279)
+
118:
as reported by Eric Marsden on cmucl-imp@cons.org 2001-08-14:
(= (FLOAT 1 DOUBLE-FLOAT-EPSILON)
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
* '``(FOO ,@',@S)
``(FOO SB-IMPL::BACKQ-COMMA-AT S)
- b.
- * (write '`(, .ala.) :readably t :pretty t)
- `(,.ALA.)
-
- (note the space between the comma and the point)
+ c. (reported by Paul F. Dietz)
+ * '`(lambda ,x)
+ `(LAMBDA (SB-IMPL::BACKQ-COMMA X))
143:
(reported by Jesse Bouwman 2001-10-24 through the unfortunately
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:
+ a.
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
conformance problem, since seems hard to construct useful code
where it matters.)
+ b. (fixed in 0.8.3.43)
+
146:
Floating point errors are reported poorly. E.g. on x86 OpenBSD
with sbcl-0.7.1,
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.)
-
- (due to reordering of the compiler this example is compiled
- successfully by 0.7.14, but the bug probably remains)
-
162:
(reported by Robert E. Brown 2002-04-16)
When a function is called with too few arguments, causing the
isn't too surprising since there are many differences in stack
implementation and GC conservatism between the X86 and other ports.)
+ This is probably the same bug as 216
+
167:
In sbcl-0.7.3.11, compiling the (illegal) code
(in-package :cl-user)
: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]
-
- In recent SBCL the following example also illustrates this bug:
-
(time (compile
nil
'(lambda ()
(print (incf start 22))
(print (incf start 26))))))
-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.
+ This example could be solved with clever enough constraint
+ propagation or with SSA, but consider
+
+ (let ((x 0))
+ (loop (incf x 2)))
+
+ The careful type of X is {2k} :-(. Is it really important to be
+ able to work with unions of many intervals?
191: "Miscellaneous PCL deficiencies"
(reported by Alexey Dejneka sbcl-devel 2002-08-04)
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.
-
+ c. (fixed in 0.8.4.23)
-201: "Incautious type inference from compound CONS types"
- (reported by APD sbcl-devel 2002-09-17)
+201: "Incautious type inference from compound types"
+ a. (reported by APD sbcl-devel 2002-09-17)
(DEFUN FOO (X)
(LET ((Y (CAR (THE (CONS INTEGER *) X))))
(SETF (CAR X) NIL)
(FOO ' (1 . 2)) => "NIL IS INTEGER, Y = 1"
+ b.
+ * (defun foo (x)
+ (declare (type (array * (4 4)) x))
+ (let ((y x))
+ (setq x (make-array '(4 4)))
+ (adjust-array y '(3 5))
+ (= (array-dimension y 0) (eval `(array-dimension ,y 0)))))
+ FOO
+ * (foo (make-array '(4 4) :adjustable t))
+ NIL
+
205: "environment issues in cross compiler"
(These bugs have no impact on user code, but should be fixed or
documented.)
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)
+ a. (fixed in 0.8.4.36)
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
(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
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.)
+ This is probably the same bug as 162
+
217: "Bad type operations with FUNCTION types"
In sbcl.0.7.7:
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.)
-
-220:
- Sbcl 0.7.9 fails to compile
-
- (multiple-value-call #'list
- (the integer (helper))
- nil)
-
- Type check for INTEGER, 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 the check between evaluation of arguments, but it
- could be tricky to check result types of PROG1, IF etc.
+ produce invalid code, but type checking is not accurate.)
233: bugs in constraint propagation
- a.
- (defun foo (x)
- (declare (optimize (speed 2) (safety 3)))
- (let ((y 0d0))
- (values
- (the double-float x)
- (setq y (+ x 1d0))
- (setq x 3d0)
- (quux y (+ y 2d0) (* y 3d0)))))
- (foo 4) => segmentation violation
-
- (see usage of CONTINUATION-ASSERTED-TYPE in USE-RESULT-CONSTRAINTS)
- (see also bug 236)
-
b.
(declaim (optimize (speed 2) (safety 3)))
(defun foo (x y)
(foo '(nil) '(t)) => NIL, T.
- b. (reported by brown on #lisp 2003-01-21)
-
- (defun find-it (x)
- (declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0)))
- (declare (notinline mapcar))
- (let ((z (mapcar #'car x)))
- (find 'foobar z)))
-
- Without (DECLARE (NOTINLINE MAPCAR)), Python cannot derive that Z is
- LIST.
-
237: "Environment arguments to type functions"
a. Functions SUBTYPEP, TYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE, and
UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now have an optional environment
; The variable Y is defined but never used.
245: bugs in disassembler
- a. On X86 an immediate operand for IMUL is printed incorrectly.
b. On X86 operand size prefix is not recognized.
-246: "NTH-VALUE scaling problem"
- NTH-VALUE's current implementation for constant integers scales in
- compile-time as O(n^4), as indeed must the optional dispatch
- mechanism on which it is implemented. While it is unlikely to
- matter in real user code, it's still unpleasant to observe that
- (NTH-VALUE 1000 (VALUES-LIST (MAKE-LIST 1001))) takes several hours
- to compile.
-
-248: "reporting errors in type specifier syntax"
- (TYPEP 1 '(SYMBOL NIL)) says something about "unknown type
- specifier".
-
251:
(defun foo (&key (a :x))
(declare (fixnum a))
does not cause a warning. (BTW: old SBCL issued a warning, but for a
function, which was never called!)
-253: "type checking is embedded THEs"
- Compiler cannot perform type checking in
+256:
+ Compiler does not emit warnings for
+
+ a. (lambda () (svref (make-array 8 :adjustable t) 1))
+
+ b. (lambda (x)
+ (list (let ((y (the real x)))
+ (unless (floatp y) (error ""))
+ y)
+ (integer-length x)))
+
+ c. (lambda (x)
+ (declare (optimize (debug 0)))
+ (declare (type vector x))
+ (list (fill-pointer x)
+ (svref x 1)))
+
+257:
+ Complex array type does not have corresponding type specifier.
+
+ This is a problem because the compiler emits optimization notes when
+ you use a non-simple array, and without a type specifier for hairy
+ array types, there's no good way to tell it you're doing it
+ intentionally so that it should shut up and just compile the code.
+
+ Another problem is confusing error message "asserted type ARRAY
+ conflicts with derived type (VALUES SIMPLE-VECTOR &OPTIONAL)" during
+ compiling (LAMBDA (V) (VALUES (SVREF V 0) (VECTOR-POP V))).
+
+ The last problem is that when type assertions are converted to type
+ checks, types are represented with type specifiers, so we could lose
+ complex attribute. (Now this is probably not important, because
+ currently checks for complex arrays seem to be performed by
+ callees.)
+
+259:
+ (compile nil '(lambda () (aref (make-array 0) 0))) compiles without
+ warning. Analogous cases with the index and length being equal and
+ greater than 0 are warned for; the problem here seems to be that the
+ type required for an array reference of this type is (INTEGER 0 (0))
+ which is canonicalized to NIL.
+
+260:
+ a.
+ (let* ((s (gensym))
+ (t1 (specifier-type s)))
+ (eval `(defstruct ,s))
+ (type= t1 (specifier-type s)))
+ => NIL, NIL
+
+ (fixed in 0.8.1.24)
+
+ b. The same for CSUBTYPEP.
+
+262: "yet another bug in inline expansion of local functions"
+ Compiler fails on
+
+ (defun foo (x y)
+ (declare (integer x y))
+ (+ (block nil
+ (flet ((xyz (u)
+ (declare (integer u))
+ (if (> (1+ (the unsigned-byte u)) 0)
+ (+ 1 u)
+ (return (+ 38 (cos (/ u 78)))))))
+ (declare (inline xyz))
+ (return-from foo
+ (* (funcall (eval #'xyz) x)
+ (if (> x 30)
+ (funcall (if (> x 5) #'xyz #'identity)
+ (+ x 13))
+ 38)))))
+ (sin (* x y))))
+
+ Urgh... It's time to write IR1-copier.
+
+266:
+ David Lichteblau provided (sbcl-devel 2003-06-01) a patch to fix
+ behaviour of streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE 8). The patch
+ looks reasonable, if not obviously correct; however, it caused the
+ PPC/Linux port to segfault during warm-init while loading
+ src/pcl/std-class.fasl. A workaround patch was made, but it would
+ be nice to understand why the first patch caused problems, and to
+ fix the cause if possible.
+
+268: "wrong free declaration scope"
+ The following code must signal type error:
+
+ (locally (declare (optimize (safety 3)))
+ (flet ((foo (x &optional (y (car x)))
+ (declare (optimize (safety 0)))
+ (list x y)))
+ (funcall (eval #'foo) 1)))
+
+269:
+ SCALE-FLOAT should accept any integer for its second argument.
+
+270:
+ In the following function constraint propagator optimizes nothing:
- (let () (list (the fixnum (the unsigned-byte (eval -1)))))
+ (defun foo (x)
+ (declare (integer x))
+ (declare (optimize speed))
+ (typecase x
+ (fixnum "hala")
+ (fixnum "buba")
+ (bignum "hip")
+ (t "zuz")))
+
+273:
+ Compilation of the following two forms causes "X is unbound" error:
+
+ (symbol-macrolet ((x pi))
+ (macrolet ((foo (y) (+ x y)))
+ (declaim (inline bar))
+ (defun bar (z)
+ (* z (foo 4)))))
+ (defun quux (z)
+ (bar z))
+
+ (See (COERCE (CDR X) 'FUNCTION) in IR1-CONVERT-INLINE-LAMBDA.)
+
+274:
+ CLHS says that type declaration of a symbol macro should not affect
+ its expansion, but in SBCL it does. (If you like magic and want to
+ fix it, don't forget to change all uses of MACROEXPAND to
+ MACROEXPAND*.)
+
+275:
+ The following code (taken from CLOCC) takes a lot of time to compile:
+
+ (defun foo (n)
+ (declare (type (integer 0 #.large-constant) n))
+ (expt 1/10 n))
+
+ (fixed in 0.8.2.51, but a test case would be good)
+
+276:
+ (defmethod fee ((x fixnum))
+ (setq x (/ x 2))
+ x)
+ (fee 1) => type error
+
+ (taken from CLOCC)
+
+278:
+ a.
+ (defun foo ()
+ (declare (optimize speed))
+ (loop for i of-type (integer 0) from 0 by 2 below 10
+ collect i))
+
+ uses generic arithmetic.
+
+ b. (fixed in 0.8.3.6)
+
+279: type propagation error -- correctly inferred type goes astray?
+ In sbcl-0.8.3 and sbcl-0.8.1.47, the warning
+ The binding of ABS-FOO is a (VALUES (INTEGER 0 0)
+ &OPTIONAL), not a (INTEGER 1 536870911)
+ is emitted when compiling this file:
+ (declaim (ftype (function ((integer 0 #.most-positive-fixnum))
+ (integer #.most-negative-fixnum 0))
+ foo))
+ (defun foo (x)
+ (- x))
+ (defun bar (x)
+ (let* (;; Uncomment this for a type mismatch warning indicating
+ ;; that the type of (FOO X) is correctly understood.
+ #+nil (fs-foo (float-sign (foo x)))
+ ;; Uncomment this for a type mismatch warning
+ ;; indicating that the type of (ABS (FOO X)) is
+ ;; correctly understood.
+ #+nil (fs-abs-foo (float-sign (abs (foo x))))
+ ;; something wrong with this one though
+ (abs-foo (abs (foo x))))
+ (declare (type (integer 1 100) abs-foo))
+ (print abs-foo)))
+
+ (see also bug 117)
+
+280: bogus WARNING about duplicate function definition
+ In sbcl-0.8.3 and sbcl-0.8.1.47, if BS.MIN is defined inline,
+ e.g. by
+ (declaim (inline bs.min))
+ (defun bs.min (bases) nil)
+ before compiling the file below, the compiler warns
+ Duplicate definition for BS.MIN found in one static
+ unit (usually a file).
+ when compiling
+ (declaim (special *minus* *plus* *stagnant*))
+ (defun b.*.min (&optional (x () xp) (y () yp) &rest rest)
+ (bs.min avec))
+ (define-compiler-macro b.*.min (&rest rest)
+ `(bs.min ,@rest))
+ (defun afish-d-rbd (pd)
+ (if *stagnant*
+ (b.*.min (foo-d-rbd *stagnant*))
+ (multiple-value-bind (reduce-fn initial-value)
+ (etypecase pd
+ (list (values #'bs.min 0))
+ (vector (values #'bs.min *plus*)))
+ (let ((cv-ks (cv (kpd.ks pd))))
+ (funcall reduce-fn d-rbds)))))
+ (defun bfish-d-rbd (pd)
+ (if *stagnant*
+ (b.*.min (foo-d-rbd *stagnant*))
+ (multiple-value-bind (reduce-fn initial-value)
+ (etypecase pd
+ (list (values #'bs.min *minus*))
+ (vector (values #'bs.min 0)))
+ (let ((cv-ks (cv (kpd.ks pd))))
+ (funcall reduce-fn d-rbds)))))
+
+281: COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-METHOD error signalling.
+ (slightly obscured by a non-0 default value for
+ SB-PCL::*MAX-EMF-PRECOMPUTE-METHODS*)
+ It would be natural for COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-METHOD to signal errors
+ when it finds a method with invalid qualifiers. However, it
+ shouldn't signal errors when any such methods are not applicable to
+ the particular call being evaluated, and certainly it shouldn't when
+ simply precomputing effective methods that may never be called.
+ (setf sb-pcl::*max-emf-precompute-methods* 0)
+ (defgeneric foo (x)
+ (:method-combination +)
+ (:method ((x symbol)) 1)
+ (:method + ((x number)) x))
+ (foo 1) -> ERROR, but should simply return 1
+
+ The issue seems to be that construction of a discriminating function
+ calls COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-METHOD with methods that are not all applicable.
+
+283: Thread safety: libc functions
+ There are places that we call unsafe-for-threading libc functions
+ that we should find alternatives for, or put locks around. Known or
+ strongly suspected problems, as of 0.8.3.10: please update this
+ bug instead of creating new ones
+
+ localtime() - called for timezone calculations in code/time.lisp
+
+284: Thread safety: special variables
+ There are lots of special variables in SBCL, and I feel sure that at
+ least some of them are indicative of potentially thread-unsafe
+ parts of the system. See doc/internals/notes/threading-specials
+
+286: "recursive known functions"
+ Self-call recognition conflicts with known function
+ recognition. Currently cross compiler and target COMPILE do not
+ recognize recursion, and in target compiler it can be disabled. We
+ can always disable it for known functions with RECURSIVE attribute,
+ but there remains a possibility of a function with a
+ (tail)-recursive simplification pass and transforms/VOPs for base
+ cases.
+
+287: PPC/Linux miscompilation or corruption in first GC
+ When the runtime is compiled with -O3 on certain PPC/Linux machines, a
+ segmentation fault is reported at the point of first triggered GC,
+ during the compilation of DEFSTRUCT WRAPPER. As a temporary workaround,
+ the runtime is no longer compiled with -O3 on PPC/Linux, but it is likely
+ that this merely obscures, not solves, the underlying problem; as and when
+ underlying problems are fixed, it would be worth trying again to provoke
+ this problem.
+
+288: fundamental cross-compilation issues (from old UGLINESS file)
+ Using host floating point numbers to represent target floating point
+ numbers, or host characters to represent target characters, is
+ theoretically shaky. (The characters are OK as long as the characters
+ are in the ANSI-guaranteed character set, though, so they aren't a
+ real problem as long as the sources don't need anything but that;
+ the floats are a real problem.)
+
+289: "type checking and source-transforms"
+ a.
+ (block nil (let () (funcall #'+ (eval 'nil) (eval '1) (return :good))))
+ signals type error.
+
+ Our policy is to check argument types at the moment of a call. It
+ disagrees with ANSI, which says that type assertions are put
+ immediately onto argument expressions, but is easier to implement in
+ IR1 and is more compatible to type inference, inline expansion,
+ etc. IR1-transforms automatically keep this policy, but source
+ transforms for associative functions (such as +), being applied
+ during IR1-convertion, do not. It may be tolerable for direct calls
+ (+ x y z), but for (FUNCALL #'+ x y z) it is non-conformant.
+
+ b. Another aspect of this problem is efficiency. [x y + z +]
+ requires less registers than [x y z + +]. This transformation is
+ currently performed with source transforms, but it would be good to
+ also perform it in IR1 optimization phase.
+
+290: Alpha floating point and denormalized traps
+ In SBCL 0.8.3.6x on the alpha, we work around what appears to be a
+ hardware or kernel deficiency: the status of the enable/disable
+ denormalized-float traps bit seems to be ambiguous; by the time we
+ get to os_restore_fp_control after a trap, denormalized traps seem
+ to be enabled. Since we don't want a trap every time someone uses a
+ denormalized float, in general, we mask out that bit when we restore
+ the control word; however, this clobbers any change the user might
+ have made.
+
+296:
+ (reported by Adam Warner, sbcl-devel 2003-09-23)
+
+ The --load toplevel argument does not perform any sanitization of its
+ argument. As a result, files with Lisp pathname pattern characters
+ (#\* or #\?, for instance) or quotation marks can cause the system
+ to perform arbitrary behaviour.
+
+297:
+ LOOP with non-constant arithmetic step clauses suffers from overzealous
+ type constraint: code of the form
+ (loop for d of-type double-float from 0d0 to 10d0 by x collect d)
+ compiles to a type restriction on X of (AND DOUBLE-FLOAT (REAL
+ (0))). However, an integral value of X should be legal, because
+ successive adds of integers to double-floats produces double-floats,
+ so none of the type restrictions in the code is violated.
+
+300: (reported by Peter Graves) Function PEEK-CHAR checks PEEK-TYPE
+ argument type only after having read a character. This is caused
+ with EXPLICIT-CHECK attribute in DEFKNOWN. The similar problem
+ exists with =, /=, <, >, <=, >=. They were fixed, but it is probably
+ less error prone to have EXPLICIT-CHECK be a local declaration,
+ being put into the definition, instead of an attribute being kept in
+ a separate file; maybe also put it into SB-EXT?
+
+301: ARRAY-SIMPLE-=-TYPE-METHOD breaks on corner cases which can arise
+ in NOTE-ASSUMED-TYPES
+ In sbcl-0.8.7.32, compiling the file
+ (defun foo (x y)
+ (declare (type integer x))
+ (declare (type (vector (or hash-table bit)) y))
+ (bletch 2 y))
+ (defun bar (x y)
+ (declare (type integer x))
+ (declare (type (simple-array base (2)) y))
+ (bletch 1 y))
+ gives the error
+ failed AVER: "(NOT (AND (NOT EQUALP) CERTAINP))"
+
+302: Undefined type messes up DATA-VECTOR-REF expansion.
+ Compiling this file
+ (defun dis (s ei x y)
+ (declare (type (simple-array function (2)) s) (type ei ei))
+ (funcall (aref s ei) x y))
+ on sbcl-0.8.7.36/X86/Linux causes a BUG to be signalled:
+ full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF
+
+303: "nonlinear LVARs" (aka MISC.293)
+ (defun buu (x)
+ (multiple-value-call #'list
+ (block foo
+ (multiple-value-prog1
+ (eval '(values :a :b :c))
+ (catch 'bar
+ (if (> x 0)
+ (return-from foo
+ (eval `(if (> ,x 1)
+ 1
+ (throw 'bar (values 3 4)))))))))))
+
+ (BUU 1) returns garbage.
+
+ The problem is that both EVALs sequentially write to the same LVAR.
+
+305:
+ (Reported by Dave Roberts.)
+ Local INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration removes local FTYPE declaration:
+
+ (defun quux (x)
+ (declare (ftype (function () (integer 0 10)) fee)
+ (inline fee))
+ (1+ (fee)))
+
+ uses generic arithmetic with INLINE and fixnum without.
+
+306: "Imprecise unions of array types"
+ a.(defun foo (x)
+ (declare (optimize speed)
+ (type (or (array cons) (array vector)) x))
+ (elt (aref x 0) 0))
+ (foo #((0))) => TYPE-ERROR
+
+ relatedly,
+
+ b.(subtypep
+ 'array
+ `(or
+ ,@(loop for x across sb-vm:*specialized-array-element-type-properties*
+ collect `(array ,(sb-vm:saetp-specifier x)))))
+ => NIL, T (when it should be T, T)
+
+308: "Characters without names"
+ (reported by Bruno Haible sbcl-devel "character names are missing"
+ 2004-04-19)
+ (graphic-char-p (code-char 255))
+ => NIL
+ (char-name (code-char 255))
+ => NIL
+
+ SBCL is unsure of what to do about characters with codes in the
+ range 128-255. Currently they are treated as non-graphic, but don't
+ have names, which is not compliant with the standard. Various fixes
+ are possible, such as
+ * giving them names such as NON-ASCII-128;
+ * reducing CHAR-CODE-LIMIT to 127 (almost certainly unpopular);
+ * making the characters graphic (makes a certain amount of sense);
+ * biting the bullet and implementing Unicode (probably quite hard).
+
+309: "Dubious values for implementation limits"
+ (reported by Bruno Haible sbcl-devel "Incorrect value of
+ multiple-values-limit" 2004-04-19)
+ (values-list (make-list 1000000)), on x86/linux, signals a stack
+ exhaustion condition, despite MULTIPLE-VALUES-LIMIT being
+ significantly larger than 1000000. There are probably similar
+ dubious values for CALL-ARGUMENTS-LIMIT (see cmucl-help/cmucl-imp
+ around the same time regarding a call to LIST on sparc with 1000
+ arguments) and other implementation limit constants.
+
+310: "Floating point printing inaccuracy"
+ (reported by Bruno Haible sbcl-devel "print-read consistency for
+ floating point numbers" 2004-04-19)
+ (let ((x (/ -9.349640046247849d-21 -9.381494249123696d-11)))
+ (let ((y (read-from-string (write-to-string x :readably t))))
+ (eql x y)))
+ should return T but, as of sbcl-0.8.9.51, returns NIL.
+
+ That this is a bug in the printer is demonstrated by
+ (setq x1 (float -5496527/100000000000000000))
+ (setq x2 (float -54965272/1000000000000000000))
+ (integer-decode-float x1) => 15842660 -58 -1
+ (integer-decode-float x2) => 15842661 -58 -1
+ (prin1-to-string x1) => "-5.496527e-11"
+ (prin1-to-string x2) => "-5.496527e-11" ; should be different!
+
+ Note also the following comment from src/code/print.lisp:
+ ;;; NOTE: When a number is to be printed in exponential format, it is
+ ;;; scaled in floating point. Since precision may be lost in this
+ ;;; process, the guaranteed accuracy properties of FLONUM-TO-STRING
+ ;;; are lost. The difficulty is that FLONUM-TO-STRING performs
+ ;;; extensive computations with integers of similar magnitude to that
+ ;;; of the number being printed. For large exponents, the bignums
+ ;;; really get out of hand. If bignum arithmetic becomes reasonably
+ ;;; fast and the exponent range is not too large, then it might become
+ ;;; attractive to handle exponential notation with the same accuracy
+ ;;; as non-exponential notation, using the method described in the
+ ;;; Steele and White paper.
+
+ See also CSR sbcl-devel with an implementation of Berger and
+ Dybvig's algorithm for printing and a fix for reading.
+
+311: "Tokeniser not thread-safe"
+ (see also Robert Marlow sbcl-help "Multi threaded read chucking a
+ spak" 2004-04-19)
+ The tokenizer's use of *read-buffer* and *read-buffer-length* causes
+ spurious errors should two threads attempt to tokenise at the same
+ time.
+
+312:
+ (reported by Jon Dyte)
+ SBCL issues a warning "Duplicate definition of FOO" compiling
+
+ (declaim (inline foo))
+ (defun foo (x)
+ (1+ x))
+ (defun bar (y)
+ (list (foo y) (if (> y 1) (funcall (if (> y 0) #'foo #'identity) y))))
- (fixed in 0.8.0.34)
+ (probably related to the bug 280.)
-DEFUNCT CATEGORIES OF BUGS
- IR1-#:
- These labels were used for bugs related to the old IR1 interpreter.
- The # values reached 6 before the category was closed down.
+313: "source-transforms are Lisp-1"
+ (fixed in 0.8.10.2)
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