X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=BUGS;h=8fd2a83a643565274d856f02eb6ac077d8e727bd;hb=6b8baeece6cf870e3f979a9f09c32985c64c04de;hp=e68157d6a4cbb35ac929321282d5edd1c48e558e;hpb=27763fafd1b170518ac2e85b9344fdddddcfd7c5;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS index e68157d..8fd2a83 100644 --- a/BUGS +++ b/BUGS @@ -84,12 +84,6 @@ WORKAROUND: d: (fixed in 0.8.1.5) -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. - 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. @@ -174,6 +168,9 @@ WORKAROUND: e-mail on cmucl-help@cons.org on 2001-01-16 and 2001-01-17 from WHN and Pierre Mai.) + (Actually this has changed changed since, and types as above are + now supported. This may be a bug.) + 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 @@ -252,20 +249,17 @@ WORKAROUND: 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). - - 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 + ROOM issues: - debugger invoked on a SB-INT:BUG in thread 5911: - failed AVER: "(SAP= CURRENT END)" + a) ROOM works by walking over the heap linearly, instead of + following the object graph. Hence, it report garbage objects that + are unreachable. (Maybe this is a feature and not a bug?) - unless a GC has happened beforehand. + b) ROOM uses MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS to walk the heap, which doesn't + check all pointers as well as it should, and can hence become + confused, leading to aver failures. As of 1.0.13.21 these (the + SAP= aver in particular) should be mostly under control, but push + ROOM hard enough and it still might croak. 117: When the compiler inline expands functions, it may be that different @@ -485,6 +479,11 @@ WORKAROUND: (print (incf start 22)) (print (incf start 26)))))) + [ Update: 1.0.14.36 improved this quite a bit (20-25%) by + eliminating useless work from PROPAGATE-FROM-SETS -- but as alluded + below, maybe we should be smarter about when to decide a derived + type is "good enough". ] + This example could be solved with clever enough constraint propagation or with SSA, but consider @@ -557,11 +556,6 @@ WORKAROUND: c. The cross-compiler cannot inline functions defined in a non-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 @@ -732,11 +726,7 @@ WORKAROUND: 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))) + b. (fixed at some point before 1.0.4.10) c. (lambda (x) (declare (optimize (debug 0))) @@ -883,11 +873,9 @@ WORKAROUND: 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 + strongly suspected problems, as of 1.0.3.13: please update this bug instead of creating new ones - gethostbyaddr in sb-bsd-sockets - 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 @@ -1478,18 +1466,6 @@ WORKAROUND: 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 () @@ -1636,22 +1612,6 @@ WORKAROUND: For some more details see comments for (define-alien-type-method (c-string :deport-gen) ...) in host-c-call.lisp. -402: "DECLAIM DECLARATION does not inform the PCL code-walker" - reported by Vincent Arkesteijn: - - (declaim (declaration foo)) - (defgeneric bar (x)) - (defmethod bar (x) - (declare (foo x)) - x) - - ==> WARNING: The declaration FOO is not understood by - SB-PCL::SPLIT-DECLARATIONS. - Please put FOO on one of the lists SB-PCL::*NON-VAR-DECLARATIONS*, - SB-PCL::*VAR-DECLARATIONS-WITH-ARG*, or - SB-PCL::*VAR-DECLARATIONS-WITHOUT-ARG*. - (Assuming it is a variable declaration without argument). - 403: FORMAT/PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK of CONDITIONs ignoring *PRINT-CIRCLE* In sbcl-0.9.13.34, (defparameter *c* @@ -1753,6 +1713,10 @@ WORKAROUND: 3: (SB-C::BOUND-FUNC ...) 4: (SB-C::%SINGLE-FLOAT-DERIVE-TYPE-AUX ...) + These are now fixed, but (COERCE HUGE 'SINGLE-FLOAT) still signals a + type-error at runtime. The question is, should it instead signal a + floating-point overflow, or return an infinity? + 408: SUBTYPEP confusion re. OR of SATISFIES of not-yet-defined predicate As reported by Levente M\'{e}sz\'{a}ros sbcl-devel 2006-02-20, (aver (equal (multiple-value-list @@ -1808,3 +1772,117 @@ WORKAROUND: This gives a type error (#:G1 is not a (NOT SYMBOL)) because of the implementation of read circularity, using a symbol as a marker for the previously-referenced object. + +415: Issues creating large arrays on x86-64/Linux and x86/Darwin + + (make-array (1- array-dimension-limit)) + + causes a GC invariant violation on x86-64/Linux, and + an unhandled SIGILL on x86/Darwin. + +416: backtrace confusion + + (defun foo (x) + (let ((v "foo")) + (flet ((bar (z) + (oops v z) + (oops z v))) + (bar x) + (bar v)))) + (foo 13) + + gives the correct error, but the backtrace shows + 1: (SB-KERNEL:FDEFINITION-OBJECT 13 NIL) + as the second frame. + +418: SUBSEQ on lists doesn't support bignum indexes + + LIST-SUBSEQ* now has all the works necessary to support bignum indexes, + but it needs to be verified that changing the DEFKNOWN doesn't kill + performance elsewhere. + + Other generic sequence functions have this problem as well. + +419: stack-allocated indirect closure variables are not popped + + (defun bug419 (x) + (multiple-value-call #'list + (eval '(values 1 2 3)) + (let ((x x)) + (declare (sb-int:truly-dynamic-extent x)) + (flet ((mget (y) + (+ x y)) + (mset (z) + (incf x z))) + (declare (dynamic-extent #'mget #'mset)) + ((lambda (f g) (eval `(progn ,f ,g (values 4 5 6)))) #'mget #'mset))))) + + (ASSERT (EQUAL (BUG419 42) '(1 2 3 4 5 6))) => failure + + Note: as of SBCL 1.0.26.29 this bug no longer affects user code, as + SB-INT:TRULY-DYNAMIC-EXTENT needs to be used instead of + DYNAMIC-EXTENT for this to happen. Proper fix for this bug requires + (Nikodemus thinks) storing the relevant LAMBDA-VARs in a + :DYNAMIC-EXTENT cleanup, and teaching stack analysis how to deal + with them. + +421: READ-CHAR-NO-HANG misbehaviour on Windows Console: + + It seems that on Windows READ-CHAR-NO-HANG hangs if the user + has pressed a key, but not yet enter (ie. SYSREAD-MAY-BLOCK-P + seems to lie if the OS is buffering input for us on Console.) + + reported by Elliot Slaughter on sbcl-devel 2008/1/10. + +422: out-of-extent return not checked in safe code + + (declaim (optimize safety)) + (funcall (catch 't (block nil (throw 't (lambda () (return)))))) + +behaves ...erratically. Reported by Kevin Reid on sbcl-devel +2007-07-06. (We don't _have_ to check things like this, but we +generally try to check returns in safe code, so we should here too.) + +424: toplevel closures and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* + + The following breaks under COMPILE-FILE if *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* is true. + + (let ((exported-symbols-alist + (loop for symbol being the external-symbols of :cl + collect (cons symbol + (concatenate 'string + "#" + (string-downcase symbol)))))) + (defun hyperdoc-lookup (symbol) + (cdr (assoc symbol exported-symbols-alist)))) + + (Test-case adapted from CL-PPCRE.) + +426: inlining failure involving multiple nested calls + + (declaim (inline foo)) + (defun foo (x y) + (cons x y)) + (defun bar (x) + (foo (foo x x) (foo x x))) + ;; shows a full call to FOO + (disassemble 'bar) + ;; simple way to test this programmatically + (let ((code (sb-c::fun-code-header #'bar)) + (foo (sb-impl::fdefinition-object 'foo nil))) + (loop for i from sb-vm:code-constants-offset below (sb-kernel:get-header-data code) + do (assert (not (eq foo (sb-kernel:code-header-ref code i)))))) + + This appears to be an ancient bug, inherited from CMUCL: reportedly + 18c does the same thing. RECOGNIZE-KNOWN-CALL correctly picks up only + one of the calls, but local call analysis fails to inline the call + for the second time. Nikodemus thinks (but is not 100% sure based on + very brief investigation) that the call that is not inlined is the + second nested one. A trivial fix is to call CHANGE-REF-LEAF in known + call for functions already inline converted there, but he is not sure + if this has adverse effects elsewhere. + +428: TIMER SCHEDULE-STRESS in timer.impure.lisp fails + + Failure modes vary. Core problem seems to be (?) recursive entry to + RUN-EXPIRED-TIMERS.