Re: [Sbcl-devel] Bugles in 0.6.7 with parameter checking

[William H. N. <wil...@ai...>]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:09:12PM +0200, Peter Van Eynde wrote:

> It seems there is a problem with parameter checking on 0.6.7:
> 
> This is SBCL 0.6.7, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
> 
> SBCL is derived from the CMU CL system created at Carnegie Mellon University.
> ...
> 
> More information on SBCL is available at <http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/>.
> * (butlast '(1 2 3) -1)
> Help! 11 nested errors. KERNEL:*MAXIMUM-ERROR-DEPTH* exceeded.
> * 
> 
> Also (make-list -1) fails. This looks similar to a problem I 
> reported to William around 20 Feb 2000.

That it does.
 
> That time it was blamed on the interface error checking, this looks
> like the same problem.

I had already downloaded your clocc/ansi-test package and started
looking at it. This gives me more incentive to make it part of the
release process.:-| (and generally get somewhat serious about
regression tests)

I'm not going to do anything about it for the next few days,
though, since I'm busy moving stuff off my old machine and entertaining
visiting relatives.

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