Hi Dave,
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:06 AM Dave Musicant <dmusicant@carleton.edu
<mailto:dmusicant@carleton.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm seeing some strange behavior with tracing code, which I'd love
some
help understanding. I've boiled it down to the following
simplified example:
(define count
(lambda (n)
(if (equal? n 1) 1
(+ 1 (count (- n 1))))))
,tr (count 92)
When I run the above code (in a fresh Guile instance, via redirecting
from a file), the trace runs to completion.
However, when I run this version of the code from a file, which
runs the
function twice...
(define count
(lambda (n)
(if (equal? n 1) 1
(+ 1 (count (- n 1))))))
,tr (count 10) ; runs to completion
,tr (count 92) ; dies mid-trace
... then the trace dies when it runs the second time, in something
that
must be some sort of stack overflow, though the error is fairly
cryptic:
While executing meta-command:
In procedure +: Wrong type argument in position 1: #<unspecified>
What's happening from a memory perspective where tracing the code the
first time affects how much memory is available for the second
time? It
seems that the first run shouldn't affect the stack limit of the
second,
but something is going on.
Thanks for the help.
Dave
I've tried it with Guile 3.0.4 (in macOS) and I didn't get this error.
What version of Guile and OS are you using?
Aleix