[Openmcl-devel] Compiler infinite loop

[Valentin Baciu]

I agree that this fits perfectly into the "code smell" category, but my
initial example was something more complex and I manged to reduce it to that
snippet. By the way, I have just tested my code in SBCL and CLISP: both
implementations throw an error, without hanging.

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:

> My thoughts: don't write code like that.  (Reminds me of the old aphorism:
> "Doctor, it hurts when I poke myself in the eye.")
>
> On Sep 19, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Valentin Baciu wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I ran into an infinite loop that keeps one out of two CPUs at 100% while
> compiling some piece of code reduced to this example:
> >
> > (defun keep-compiler-busy ()
> >   (let ((test nil))
> >     (symbol-macrolet ((test test))
> >       (pprint test))))
> >
> > I am not sure if this is a bug (maybe not according to CLHS) or if this
> could be a "missing" feature, but it bit me until I realized what happened.
> My guess is that the compiler keeps expanding the symbol 'test without
> exhausting the stack. Not a big problem from my point of view, but please
> let me know your thoughts on dealing with this kind of stuff.
> >
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