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From: rathke@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Christian Rathke)
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Subject: eval-when problem - is it a bug?
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Date: 27 Feb 90 11:38:52 GMT
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The following constellation causes an undefined function error when compiling
test-file:

;;;;; evaluate the following definitions

    (defmacro the-macro ()
      (macro-expander))
    
    
    (defun macro-expander ()
      (the-function))

;;;;; compile-file "test-file.lisp" which contains:

    (eval-when (compile load eval)
      (defun the-function ()
	t)
      )
    
    (the-macro)
    

Somehow the call to "the-function" does not get linked to the definition
in test-file and macro-expanding (the-macro) bombs.

This behavior (among other things?) causes rainy-day-pcl to not compile correctly.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

	-Christian

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Christian Rathke                    rathke@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de
Institut fuer Informatik
Universitaet Stuttgart
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