[Gcl-devel] Re: Stack overflow problem

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

root <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm,
> 
> The stack overflow problem is caused by the Axiom preparser. It
> scans for macros and expands BOTH sides of the macros based on
> previous macros. The failure occcurs if there are 2 macros with
> the same name in the same file. The expansion becomes:
> 
> env:   ()
> macro: MAX ==> 1
> env:   (MAX ==> 1)
> macro: MAX ==> 1
> env    (1 ==> 1, MAX ==> 1)
> macro  1 + 1
>   crash
> 
> It is considered (by me) a bug to expand the left hand side of the macro.
> I don't know where this is done but it needs to be fixed. I fear the
> "correct" fix will take me into the meta code using the meta compiler.
> 
> This is not a GCL failure (although GCL is particularly unhelpful 
> when debugging stack overflows as :bt will crash GCL).
> 

OK, then this is what I need to look at, which I'll try to get to
soon. 

Take care,

> Tim
> address@hidden
> address@hidden
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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