[Openmcl-devel] Error Running Currency Converter

[Gary Byers]

And in case anyone's confused by that reply:

r10236 fixed a bug in the currency-converter example in 1.2 (a method
that was implicitly defined to return :id returned NIL.)  The same
bug's in the trunk, but the error that Chris is seeing seems to be
occurring during ObjC (re)initialization, long before we get to that
point.

r10246 fixed a bug in the kernel code that caused the frame pointer
register to be restored incorrectly when PROCESS-INTERRUPT returned.
that often led to a segfault and general wackiness.

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Gary Byers wrote:

> I'd be surprised if it does, but it may fix at least large parts of
> the general trunk instability that I was admonishing about.  Just
> doing:
>
> (require "COCOA")
>
> was (for me) a reliable way to trigger the bug.  (The initial thread
> segfaulted when it returned from loading the Cocoa library via
> PROCESS-INTERRUPT, and trying to track down another problem when
> things were that flaky seemed pointless.)
>
> I'd also seen similar segfaults during QUIT, and I don't think that
> that's quite the same scenario (PROCESS-INTERRUPT is used in QUIT,
> but (IIRC) none of the functions invoked via PROCESS-INTERRUPT while
> quitting ever return, and I'm not sure if that's another symptom
> of the same problem.  (In QUIT, the thread that got the segfault
> was something other than the initial thread, and the initial thread
> got tired of waiting for it to die and terminates it with extreme
> prejudice.)
>
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, R. Matthew Emerson wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jul 30, 2008, at 3:41 PM, mikel evins wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 30, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Chris Van Dusen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mikel,
>>>>
>>>> Running CurrencyConverter, I get this:
>>>>
>>>> Error during early application initialization:
>>>>
>>>> value #<A Dead Mac Pointer> is not of the expected type MACPTR.
>>>>
>>
>>
>> Does http://trac.clozure.com/openmcl/changeset/10236 fix this problem?
>>
>>
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