X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=BUGS;h=f58784a35a1b3932dadd1ed098a85bd5ad9f3e20;hb=ed72064bbc8203d70526388e90d6858c28a6db25;hp=fb3f80d332a8bbf779665177ec984b21dcedb9aa;hpb=935d6f6a696c2b0bff1c937cef346cb495e41999;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS index fb3f80d..f58784a 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 @@ -422,6 +416,8 @@ WORKAROUND: isn't too surprising since there are many differences in stack implementation and GC conservatism between the X86 and other ports.) + (Can't reproduce on x86 linux as of 1.0.20.23 - MGL) + This is probably the same bug as 216 173: @@ -485,6 +481,11 @@ 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 +558,6 @@ 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 @@ -633,6 +629,8 @@ WORKAROUND: 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.) + (Can't reproduce on x86 linux as of 1.0.20.22 - MGL) + This is probably the same bug as 162 235: "type system and inline expansion" @@ -732,11 +730,7 @@ 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 +877,9 @@ 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 @@ -1058,7 +1050,7 @@ WORKAROUND: (open "/dev/zero" :element-type '(unsigned-byte 1025)) gives an error in sbcl-0.8.10. -325: "CLOSE :ABORT T on supeseding streams" +325: "CLOSE :ABORT T on superseding streams" Closing a stream opened with :IF-EXISTS :SUPERSEDE with :ABORT T leaves no file on disk, even if one existed before opening. @@ -1478,18 +1470,6 @@ 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 () @@ -1535,6 +1515,8 @@ WORKAROUND: 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"). + (format nil "~E" 0.01) => "10.e-3" (should be "1.e-2"); + (format nil "~G" 0.01) => "10.e-3" (should be "1.e-2"); 386: SunOS/x86 stack exhaustion handling broken According to , the @@ -1636,22 +1618,6 @@ 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* @@ -1752,3 +1718,182 @@ WORKAROUND: 2: (SB-KERNEL:%SINGLE-FLOAT ...) 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 + (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. + +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.) + +428: TIMER SCHEDULE-STRESS and PARALLEL-UNSCHEDULE in + timer.impure.lisp fails + + Failure modes vary. Core problem seems to be (?) recursive entry to + RUN-EXPIRED-TIMERS. + +429: compiler hangs + + Compiling a file with this contents makes the compiler loop in + ORDER-UVL-SETS: + + (declaim (inline storage)) + (defun storage (x) + (the (simple-array flt (*)) (unknown x))) + + (defun test1 (lumps &key cg) + (let ((nodes (map 'list (lambda (lump) (storage lump)) + lumps))) + (setf (aref nodes 0) 2) + (assert (every #'~= (apply #'concatenate 'list nodes) '(2 3 6 9))))) + +430: nested structure constructors do not stack allocate + + (defun nada (x) (declare (ignore x)) nil) + + (declaim (inline make-foo)) + (defstruct foo bar) + + (defun foo () + (let ((x (list (make-foo)))) + (declare (dynamic-extent x)) + (nada x))) + + Result of MAKE-FOO not stack allocated in FOO, because the function + HANDLE-NESTED-DYNAMIC-EXTENT-LVARS sees is not + %MAKE-STRUCTURE-INSTANCE, but no-yet-eliminated (VARARGS-ENTRY + MAKE-FOO). + +431: alien strucure redefinition doesn't work as expected + fixed in 1.0.21.29