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Re: Build failure on master


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Build failure on master
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:05:34 +0200
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Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> Eventually, maybe it could handle this gracefully.  For instance, if
>> said object file is from the cache, then it could just recompile and
>> overwrite it with a new object file.
>
> Yes, this is what I'd (intuitively, but without detailed knowledge)
> expect.

I guess this could be achieved by setting up a dynwind/catch block in
`primitive-load-path' when loading things from the cache.  Something to
look at once 1.9.1 is released.

>> Then it could also try to interpret version numbers and determine
>> whether that bytecode is really incompatible, or whether it can
>> interpret it.
>
> Are there scenarios where that would be worthwhile?

Maybe, e.g., when the `.go' version is known to be a strict subset of
the current objcode version.

Thanks,
Ludo'.





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