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From: roberts%studguppy@lanl.gov (Doug Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: 3/60 Sun Common Lisp 2.1  with KEE segmentation fault
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Date: 10 Dec 88 00:35:35 GMT
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> Ocasionally (1-5+ times/week) the Lisp gives a segmentation fault and
> locks or forces the Lisper to restart. Sun and Intellicorp are busy
> pointing fingers at each other, any suggestions as to where to look for
> the error?...

We have found many ways to get segmentation faults while running KEE on
our Suns -:{.... floating point errors, operations on the wrong data
types, KEE bugs, etc. etc. etc...

Until we get a reasonable debugging environment for lisp on the Sun, we
are all sentenced to long, painful debugging sessions when these problems
occur.

--Doug

Douglas Roberts
Los Alamos National Laboratory
(505)667-4569
dzzr@lanl.gov