Re: [j-devel] re: stack overflow on tail recursion

[Peter G. <pe...@ar...>]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 at 18:16:03 -0700, Wayne Rogers wrote:
> I'm using WinXP SP1. If I launch j by double clicking
> the j.jar I can only use the embedded lisp. I get the
> same error using when trying the "separate process".

This sounds like a bug. I don't run Windows, but I'm assuming double
clicking j.jar is the moral equivalent of java -jar j.jar, and when I
do the latter on Linux I can run Lisp as a separate process without any
problem.

Maybe someone who does run Windows can look into this.

<snip>

> FWIW your code appears to run to completion in Corman
> 2.5.
>
> -- here's the tail end of the print out
>
> 1,995,647 --> 441, 52,483,285,312
> 1,995,935 --> 252, 18,433,005,568
> 1,998,847 --> 278, 16,824,415,768
> 1723519
> 557
> 46571871940

With current CVS, abcl is able to run the code also and gets the same
results.

-Peter