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From: ranson@cnetlu.UUCP (Ranson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Portable CommonLoops status
Message-ID: <706@cnetlu.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 89 07:06:06 GMT
Organization: Ctre Nat Etudes Telecom, 22301 LANNION, FRANCE
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I have a copy of the 8/24/88 (AIII) version of Portable CommonLoops (Thanks
Flash Sheridan). So far, I haven't been able to make it work correctly on any
of the Common Lisps I use:
+ Symbolics CL 7.1 on 3600: complains about some duplicate definitions, then
dies on the first DEFMETHOD, trying to FUNCALL NIL.
+ Allegro CL 3.0 on Amdahl: illegal instruction while loading one of the com-
piled files.
+ Lucid CL 2.1 on Sun3: compiles and loads ok. Runs interpreted test file ok,
but refuses to compile test file.

Note that the system-building software seems to run correctly, loading the
right patch or low-level files (It does have some strange notions of filename
suffixes for Allegro CL).

What is the status of this product? Are versions tested on several CLs before
distribution, or are the potential users supposed to do the testing? Is there
a known-bugs list (hopefully with corrections) that somebody could post to
this newsgroup? Please note that my site does not allow ftp to or from a
distant site, so that this group is my only source of information.
    Thanks.
    Daniel Ranson
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