Just a few minutes ago, CMUCL did this to me:
Illegal instruction (core dumped)
I made the dump world-accessible here:
<http://www.rawbw.com/~rem/NewPub/lisp.core>
in case anybody wants to look at it and try to figure out what happened.
Is this a bug in CMUCL, or a CPU fault unrelated to Lisp?

On Apr 14, 8:10=A0am, lisp1.3.CalRob...@SpamGourmet.Com (Robert Maas,
http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote:
> Just a few minutes ago, CMUCL did this to me:
> Illegal instruction (core dumped)
> I made the dump world-accessible here:
> <http://www.rawbw.com/~rem/NewPub/lisp.core>
> in case anybody wants to look at it and try to figure out what happened.
> Is this a bug in CMUCL, or a CPU fault unrelated to Lisp?

and with a valiant effort, Robert wins the world record for useful,
comprehensible bug reports made in appropriate places!
Congratulations, Robert!

Is it reproducible?
Reproducibility comes in 4 flavors:
- same software causes same failure
- same software circumstances (memory occupation, impossibility to
write to a device...) causes same failure
- same hardware causes same failure
- same hardware circumstances (temperature, momentary electric high)
causes same failure

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:55:15 -0700 (PDT), <tburdick@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 14, 8:10�am, lisp1.3.CalRob...@SpamGourmet.Com (Robert Maas,
> http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote:
>> Just a few minutes ago, CMUCL did this to me:
>> Illegal instruction (core dumped)
>> I made the dump world-accessible here:
>> <http://www.rawbw.com/~rem/NewPub/lisp.core>
>> in case anybody wants to look at it and try to figure out what happened.
>> Is this a bug in CMUCL, or a CPU fault unrelated to Lisp?

a short between the ears

> and with a valiant effort, Robert wins the world record for useful,
> comprehensible bug reports made in appropriate places!
> Congratulations, Robert!

Nope, bugs from a 10 year old piece of software are never useful.

One of these days, a cluon will strike Robert and he will stop using
18e.  In the meantime, killfile.

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