X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=BUGS;h=7bbd84c02f1fc181458a205e7ccde7783ecadef1;hb=0f807aea814ad6eddea7824675da1ed2ff9cba86;hp=bf2c746ad19bf4aa88ed8e43471f2a3112c31f34;hpb=ae47ad0774edd8cb376772ae7e615428295f979e;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS index bf2c746..7bbd84c 100644 --- a/BUGS +++ b/BUGS @@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ WORKAROUND: 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. + Currently INSPECT and DESCRIBE do show the values, but showing the + names of the bindings would be even nicer. + 35: The compiler assumes that any time a function of declared FTYPE doesn't signal an error, its arguments were of the declared type. @@ -195,19 +198,6 @@ WORKAROUND: holding... * is not equivalent to T in many cases, such as (VECTOR *) /= (VECTOR T). -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. - - (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 @@ -730,6 +720,11 @@ WORKAROUND: (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) will write to the stream one byte at a time, rather than writing the sequence in one go, leading to severe performance degradation. + As of sbcl-0.9.0.36, this is solved for fd-streams, so is less of a + problem in practice. (Fully fixing this would require adding a + ansi-stream-n-bout slot and associated methods to write a byte + sequence to ansi-stream, similar to the existing ansi-stream-sout + slot/functions.) 243: "STYLE-WARNING overenthusiasm for unused variables" (observed from clx compilation) @@ -883,17 +878,6 @@ WORKAROUND: (1+ *faa*)) (faa 1d0) => type error -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) @@ -919,24 +903,6 @@ WORKAROUND: (see also bug 117) -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 @@ -1087,13 +1053,6 @@ WORKAROUND: around the same time regarding a call to LIST on sparc with 1000 arguments) and other implementation limit constants. -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. - 314: "LOOP :INITIALLY clauses and scope of initializers" reported by Bruno Haible sbcl-devel "various SBCL bugs" from CLISP test suite, originally by Thomas F. Burdick. @@ -1137,20 +1096,6 @@ WORKAROUND: #(1 2 ((SB-IMPL::|,|) + 2 2) 4) which probably isn't intentional. -323: "REPLACE, BIT-BASH and large strings" - The transform for REPLACE on simple-base-strings uses BIT-BASH, which - at present has an upper limit in size. Consequently, in sbcl-0.8.10 - (defun foo () - (declare (optimize speed (safety 1))) - (let ((x (make-string 140000000)) - (y (make-string 140000000))) - (length (replace x y)))) - (foo) - gives - debugger invoked on a TYPE-ERROR in thread 2412: - The value 1120000000 is not of type (MOD 536870911). - (see also "more and better sequence transforms" sbcl-devel 2004-05-10) - 324: "STREAMs and :ELEMENT-TYPE with large bytesize" In theory, (open foo :element-type '(unsigned-byte )) should work for all positive integral . At present, it only works for up @@ -1413,25 +1358,6 @@ WORKAROUND: method is applicable, and yet matches neither of the method group qualifier patterns. -341: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK / PPRINT-FILL / PPRINT-LINEAR sharing detection. - (from Paul Dietz' test suite) - - CLHS on PPRINT-LINEAR and PPRINT-FILL (and PPRINT-TABULAR, though - that's slightly different) states that these functions perform - circular and shared structure detection on their object. Therefore, - - a.(let ((*print-circle* t)) - (pprint-linear *standard-output* (let ((x '(a))) (list x x)))) - should print "(#1=(A) #1#)" - - b.(let ((*print-circle* t)) - (pprint-linear *standard-output* - (let ((x (cons nil nil))) (setf (cdr x) x) x))) - should print "#1=(NIL . #1#)" - - (it is likely that the fault lies in PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK, as - suggested by the suggested implementation of PPRINT-TABULAR) - 343: MOP:COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION overriding causes error Even the simplest possible overriding of COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION, suggested in the PCL implementation @@ -2019,12 +1945,6 @@ WORKAROUND: #.SB-EXT:SINGLE/DOUBLE-FLOAT-POSITIVE-INFINITY. These tests have been disabled on Darwin for now. -374: BIT-AND problem on ppc/darwin: - The BIT-AND test in bit-vector.impure-cload.lisp results in - fatal error encountered in SBCL pid 8356: - GC invariant lost, file "gc-common.c", line 605 - on ppc/darwin. Test disabled for the duration. - 375: MISC.555 (compile nil '(lambda (p1) (declare (optimize (speed 1) (safety 2) (debug 2) (space 0)) @@ -2058,11 +1978,6 @@ WORKAROUND: arrange_return_to_lisp_function(), but this looked hard to do in general without suffering from memory leaks. -378: floating-point exceptions not signalled on x86-64 - Floating point traps are currently not enabled on the x86-64 port. - This is true for at least overflow detection (as tested in - float.pure.lisp) and divide-by-zero. - 379: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL broken on ppc/darwin See commented-out test-case in debug.impure.lisp. @@ -2078,3 +1993,113 @@ WORKAROUND: the class redefinition will fail when SB-PCL::REMOVE-READER-METHOD tries to find and remove a method with an incompatible lambda list from the unrelated generic function. + +381: incautious calls to EQUAL in fasl dumping + Compiling + (frob #(#1=(a #1#))) + (frob #(#1=(b #1#))) + (frob #(#1=(a #1#))) + in sbcl-0.9.0 causes CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED. My (WHN) impression + is that this follows from the use of (MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST 'EQUAL) + to detect sharing, in which case fixing it might require either + getting less ambitious about detecting shared list structure, or + implementing the moral equivalent of EQUAL hash tables in a + cycle-tolerant way. + +382: externalization unexpectedly changes array simplicity + COMPILE-FILE and LOAD + (defun foo () + (let ((x #.(make-array 4 :fill-pointer 0))) + (values (eval `(typep ',x 'simple-array)) + (typep x 'simple-array)))) + then (FOO) => T, NIL. + + Similar problems exist with SIMPLE-ARRAY-P, ARRAY-HEADER accessors + and all array dimension functions. + +383: ASH'ing non-constant zeros + Compiling + (lambda (b) + (declare (type (integer -2 14) b)) + (declare (ignorable b)) + (ash (imagpart b) 57)) + on PPC (and other platforms, presumably) gives an error during the + emission of FASH-ASH-LEFT/FIXNUM=>FIXNUM as the assembler attempts to + stuff a too-large constant into the immediate field of a PPC + instruction. Either the VOP should be fixed or the compiler should be + taught how to transform this case away, paying particular attention + to side-effects that might occur in the arguments to ASH. + +384: Compiler runaway on very large character types + + (compile nil '(lambda (x) + (declare (type (member #\a 1) x)) + (the (member 1 nil) x))) + + The types apparently normalize into a very large type, and the compiler + gets lost in REMOVE-DUPLICATES. Perhaps the latter should use + a better algorithm (one based on hash tables, say) on very long lists + when :TEST has its default value? + + A simpler example: + + (compile nil '(lambda (x) (the (not (eql #\a)) x))) + + (partially fixed in 0.9.3.1, but a better representation for these + types is needed.) + +385: + (format nil "~4,1F" 0.001) => "0.00" (should be " 0.0"); + (format nil "~4,1@F" 0.001) => "+.00" (should be "+0.0"). + +386: SunOS/x86 stack exhaustion handling broken + According to , the + stack exhaustion checking (implemented with a write-protected guard + page) does not work on SunOS/x86. + +387: + 12:10 < jsnell> the package-lock test is basically due to a change in the test + behaviour when you install a handler for error around it. I + thought I'd disabled the test for now, but apparently that was + my imagination + 12:19 < Xophe> jsnell: ah, I see the problem in the package-locks stuff + 12:19 < Xophe> it's the same problem as we had with compiler-error conditions + 12:19 < Xophe> the thing that's signalled up and down the stack is a subtype of + ERROR, where it probably shouldn't be + +388: + (found by Dmitry Bogomolov) + + (defclass foo () ((x :type (unsigned-byte 8)))) + (defclass bar () ((x :type symbol))) + (defclass baz (foo bar) ()) + + causes error + + SB-PCL::SPECIALIZER-APPLICABLE-USING-TYPE-P cannot handle the second argument + (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8). + +389: + (reported several times on sbcl-devel, by Rick Taube, Brian Rowe and + others) + + ROUND-NUMERIC-BOUND assumes that float types always have a FORMAT + specifying whether they're SINGLE or DOUBLE. This is true for types + computed by the type system itself, but the compiler type derivation + short-circuits this and constructs non-canonical types. A temporary + fix was made to ROUND-NUMERIC-BOUND for the sbcl-0.9.6 release, but + the right fix is to remove the abstraction violation in the + compiler's type deriver. + +392: slot-accessor for subclass misses obsoleted superclass + (fixed in sbcl-0.9.7.9) + +393: Wrong error from methodless generic function + (DEFGENERIC FOO (X)) + (FOO 1 2) + gives NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD rather than an argument count error. + +394: (SETF CLASS-NAME)/REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE bug + (found by PFD ansi-tests) + in sbcl-0.9.7.15, (SETF (CLASS-NAME ) 'NIL) causes + (FIND-CLASS NIL) to return a #.