Re: How do you run the ansi tests?

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Hello Karsten,

> How do you run the ansi tests?

$ cd clisp
$ make -f Makefile.devel update-ansi-tests
$ ./configure build ; cd build ; ... follow the usual build instructions ...
$ make check-ansi-tests

> Today I tried the ansi-tests with cvs clisp and cvs gcl.
> I noted that 2 failures are generated by a possibly incorrect definition of
> sys::disassemble-machine-code in doit.lsp

doit.lsp is not used for clisp.

> I assume someone intended to define a workaround for disassemble requiring
> gdb in some cases.
> The definition in the ansi-tests is like
> #+(and clisp (or win32 cygwin))       ; w2k exits on (disassemble 'car)
> (without-package-lock ("SYS")
>   (defun sys::disassemble-machine-code (a b c) ....)
>
> This fails since the disassemble-machine-code now has 4 formal parameters
> (program-name pid function address).
>
> Paul Dietz told me that he believes to have received that code from a clisp
> developer.

I sent Paul a patch that removes these disassemble-machine-code workarounds
on 2004-12-14. Maybe he didn't apply it because he cares more about the
latest stable release of clisp than about the clisp CVS? I don't know.

Bruno