I recently became interested in the language QI. Since it did not run on ABCL (it does on SBCL, Allegro, LispWorks and others), I decided to see what it would take to move it there. From the QI mailing list, I found several others had tried on earlier versions of ABCL with inconclusive results. I decided to give it a try on 0.23.1.
When I tried the standard script with compiles and then loads the compiled files, ABCL hangs it what appears to be an infinite loop try to load one of the compiled files. When I switch to just loading them in as Lisp sources, things seem to work (though some of the QI tests later fail).
I tried the compile/load script under 0.24.0 today and the same hang happens.
I have a small test case consisting only of the needed sources and a couple of .bat files for Windows that demonstrates the problem, but before I proceed further, has anyone seem anything like this. The file in question DEFUNs about 85 functions. Is that too many to provoke the "large file" problem I see mentioned here?
Thanks.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Greg Baryza baryza@intersystems.com wrote:
I recently became interested in the language QI. Since it did not run on ABCL (it does on SBCL, Allegro, LispWorks and others), I decided to see what it would take to move it there. From the QI mailing list, I found several others had tried on earlier versions of ABCL with inconclusive results. I decided to give it a try on 0.23.1.
When I tried the standard script with compiles and then loads the compiled files, ABCL hangs it what appears to be an infinite loop try to load one of the compiled files. When I switch to just loading them in as Lisp sources, things seem to work (though some of the QI tests later fail).
I tried the compile/load script under 0.24.0 today and the same hang happens.
I have a small test case consisting only of the needed sources and a couple of .bat files for Windows that demonstrates the problem, but before I proceed further, has anyone seem anything like this. The file in question DEFUNs about 85 functions. Is that too many to provoke the "large file" problem I see mentioned here?
I ported Qi II to ABCL some time ago (a year?). IIRC it needed some tweaking related to its (mis)use of the reader. I submitted the patch to the Qi mailing list, but I don't know if it ever got applied, or if it diverged since - I'm not a Qi user, I ported it just to get ABCL a little publicity ;)
0.24 doesn't have the "large file" problem anymore, and anyway "large" meant many more than 85 functions.
I'm not aware of any problem causing infinite loops when loading compiled files.
Bye, Alessio
On 25 January 2011 17:33, Alessio Stalla alessiostalla@gmail.com wrote:
0.24 doesn't have the "large file" problem anymore, and anyway "large" meant many more than 85 functions. I'm not aware of any problem causing infinite loops when loading compiled files.
Well, at any rate, we need to take a look at Qi, as there seems to be interest to make it work on abcl. It's been "bubbling under" on our todo-lists as something to play with, but people have been too busy. Problem reports usually activate such todo-list items. :)
Hi Greg,
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Greg Baryza baryza@intersystems.com wrote:
I recently became interested in the language QI. Since it did not run on ABCL (it does on SBCL, Allegro, LispWorks and others), I decided to see what it would take to move it there. From the QI mailing list, I found several others had tried on earlier versions of ABCL with inconclusive results. I decided to give it a try on 0.23.1.
When I tried the standard script with compiles and then loads the compiled files, ABCL hangs it what appears to be an infinite loop try to load one of the compiled files. When I switch to just loading them in as Lisp sources, things seem to work (though some of the QI tests later fail).
I tried the compile/load script under 0.24.0 today and the same hang happens.
I have a small test case consisting only of the needed sources and a couple of .bat files for Windows that demonstrates the problem, but before I proceed further, has anyone seem anything like this. The file in question DEFUNs about 85 functions. Is that too many to provoke the "large file" problem I see mentioned here?
Could you provide us with a transcript for downloading/installing Qi so we/I can test?
If this is the same old bug, the ball is really in Qi's park, but if it's not, we're really happy to fix what we can!
Thanks!
Bye,
Erik.
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