X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=BUGS;h=f286819451e7e8c6f30487d17a86242dabea39cf;hb=f8535c1984748199fef344f9ba64f1ccab86bd53;hp=963ff68273c69f064bc247fca3180c242d9976c0;hpb=a0c5831b3a74118cf41a848300200a1acdb48dcf;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS index 963ff68..f286819 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 @@ -732,11 +729,7 @@ 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 +876,9 @@ 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 - gethostbyname, 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 +1469,6 @@ 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 () @@ -1723,3 +1702,218 @@ WORKAROUND: as of 0.9.18.11 the file compiler breaks on it: failed AVER: "(NOT (FUNCTIONAL-HAS-EXTERNAL-REFERENCES-P CLAMBDA))" Defining the missing MAKE-LOAD-FORM method makes the error go away. + +407: misoptimization of loop, COERCE 'FLOAT, and HANDLER-CASE for bignums + (reported by Ariel Badichi on sbcl-devel 2007-01-09) + 407a: In sbcl-1.0.1 on Linux x86, + (defun foo () + (loop for n from (expt 2 1024) do + (handler-case + (coerce n 'single-float) + (simple-type-error () + (format t "Got here.~%") + (return-from foo))))) + (foo) + causes an infinite loop, where handling the error would be expected. + 407b: In sbcl-1.0.1 on Linux x86, + (defun bar () + (loop for n from (expt 2 1024) do + (handler-case + (format t "~E~%" (coerce n 'single-float)) + (simple-type-error () + (format t "Got here.~%") + (return-from bar))))) + fails to compile, with + Too large to be represented as a SINGLE-FLOAT: ... + from + 0: ((LABELS SB-BIGNUM::CHECK-EXPONENT) ...) + 1: ((LABELS SB-BIGNUM::FLOAT-FROM-BITS) ...) + 2: (SB-KERNEL:%SINGLE-FLOAT ...) + 3: (SB-C::BOUND-FUNC ...) + 4: (SB-C::%SINGLE-FLOAT-DERIVE-TYPE-AUX ...) + +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 + (subtypep '(or (satisfies x) string) + '(or (satisfies x) integer))) + '(nil nil))) + fails. Also, beneath that failure lurks another failure, + (aver (equal (multiple-value-list + (subtypep 'string + '(or (satisfies x) integer))) + '(nil nil))) + Having looked at this for an hour or so in sbcl-1.0.2, and + specifically having looked at the output from + laptop$ sbcl + * (let ((x 'string) + (y '(or (satisfies x) integer))) + (trace sb-kernel::union-complex-subtypep-arg2 + sb-kernel::invoke-complex-subtypep-arg1-method + sb-kernel::type-union + sb-kernel::type-intersection + sb-kernel::type=) + (subtypep x y)) + my (WHN) impression is that the problem is that the semantics of TYPE= + are wrong for what the UNION-COMPLEX-SUBTYPEP-ARG2 code is trying + to use it for. The comments on the definition of TYPE= probably + date back to CMU CL and seem to define it as a confusing thing: + its primary value is something like "certainly equal," and its + secondary value is something like "certain about that certainty." + I'm left uncertain how to fix UNION-COMPLEX-SUBTYPEP-ARG2 without + reducing its generality by removing the TYPE= cleverness. Possibly + the tempting TYPE/= relative defined next to it might be a + suitable replacement for the purpose. Probably, though, it would + be best to start by reverse engineering exactly what TYPE= and + TYPE/= do, and writing an explanation which is so clear that one + can see immediately what it's supposed to mean in odd cases like + (TYPE= '(SATISFIES X) 'INTEGER) when X isn't defined yet. + +409: MORE TYPE SYSTEM PROBLEMS + Found while investigating an optimization failure for extended + sequences. The extended sequence type implementation was altered to + work around the problem, but the fundamental problem remains, to wit: + (sb-kernel:type= (sb-kernel:specifier-type '(or float ratio)) + (sb-kernel:specifier-type 'single-float)) + returns NIL, NIL on sbcl-1.0.3. + (probably related to bug #408) + +410: read circularities and type declarations + Consider the definition + (defstruct foo (a 0 :type (not symbol))) + followed by + (setf *print-circle* t) ; just in case + (read-from-string "#1=#s(foo :a #1#)") + 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. + +413: type-errors in ROOM + + (defvar *a* (make-array (expt 2 27))) + (room) + + Causes a type-error on 32bit SBCL, as various byte-counts in ROOM + implementation overrun fixnums. + + This was fixed in 1.0.4.89, but the patch was reverted as it caused + ROOM to cons sufficiently to make running it in a loop deadly on + GENCGC: newly allocated objects survived to generation 1, where next + call to ROOM would see them, and allocate even more... + + Reported by Faré Rideau on sbcl-devel. + +414: strange DISASSEMBLE warning + + Compiling and disassembling + + (defun disassemble-source-form-bug (x y z) + (declare (optimize debug)) + (list x y z)) + + Gives + + WARNING: bogus form-number in form! The source file has probably + been changed too much to cope with. + +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 + + (locally (declare (optimize speed (safety 0))) + (defun bug419 (x) + (multiple-value-call #'list + (eval '(values 1 2 3)) + (let ((x x)) + (declare (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) '(1 2 3 4 5 6))) => failure + +420: The MISC.556 test from gcl/ansi-tests/misc.lsp fails hard. + +In sbcl-1.0.13 on Linux/x86, executing + (FUNCALL + (COMPILE NIL + '(LAMBDA (P1 P2) + (DECLARE + (OPTIMIZE (SPEED 1) (SAFETY 0) (DEBUG 0) (SPACE 0)) + (TYPE (MEMBER 8174.8604) P1) (TYPE (MEMBER -95195347) P2)) + (FLOOR P1 P2))) + 8174.8604 -95195347) +interactively causes + SB-SYS:MEMORY-FAULT-ERROR: Unhandled memory fault at #x8. +The gcl/ansi-tests/doit.lisp program terminates prematurely shortly after +MISC.556 by falling into gdb with + fatal error encountered in SBCL pid 2827: Unhandled SIGILL +unless the MISC.556 test is commented out. + +Analysis: + and a number of other arithmetic functions exhibit the +same behaviour. Here's the underlying problem: On x86 we perform +single-float + integer normally using double-precision, and then +coerce the result back to single-float. (The FILD instruction always +gives us a double-float, and unless we do MOVE-FROM-SINGLE it remains +one. Or so it seems to me, and that would also explain the observed +behaviour below.) + +During IR1 we derive the types for both + + (+ ) ; uses double-precision + (+ (FLOAT )) ; uses single-precision + +and get a mismatch for a number of unlucky arguments. This leads to +derived result type NIL, and ends up flushing the whole whole +operation -- and finally we generate code without a return sequence, +and fall through to whatever. + +The use of double-precision in the first case appears to be an +(un)happy accident -- interval arithmetic gives us the +double-precision result because that's what the backend does. + + (+ 8172.0 (coerce -95195347 'single-float)) ; => -9.518717e7 + (+ 8172.0 -95195347) ; => -9.5187176e7 + (coerce (+ 8172.0 (coerce -95195347 'double-float)) 'single-float) + ; => -9.5187176e7 + +Which should be fixed, the IR1, or the backend? + +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.