Two weird SBCL problems, neither of whicl I have any particularly good#

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:20:47 +0000

Two weird SBCL problems, neither of whicl I have any particularly good ideas about

1. On Alpha, SBCL versions built with Glibc versions older than 2.3.2 don't run on 2.3.2, complaining about invalid args to mprotect. 2.3.2 itself won't build the SBCL runtime because we use a custom linker script to force stuff under 2Gb, which needs updating for 2.3.2

2. On X86/threaded, there's some kind of (what I assume to be a) thread safety bug apparently connected to &rest arguments. I can't see anything obviously bad in how we create rest lists, but one iteration in every far-too-many we get messages from e.g. char-equal saying that The value 0 is not of type BASE-CHAR. Which is perfectly correct in itself, but as we're not calling char-equal with 0, seems like it should be superfuous.