[Openmcl-devel] *initial-process* and *current-process*

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Gary Byers <gb at clozure.com> wrote:
[...]
> The set of per-thread bindings (STANDARD-INITIAL-BINDINGS) may change from
> release to release; changes that involve public variables should be (and
> generally have been) documented.
>
> The general model of how dynamic bindings work hasn't changed in a
> very long time (CCL has never really implemented another model), and
> this model is likely to be either very similar to in most respects or
> identical to that used in other implementations in its observable
> behavior.  The set of things that're automatically thread-local is
> probably larger in CCL than in other implementations and there may be
> a stronger relationship between the bindings in effect in the creating
> thread and those established in the created thread in other
> implementations than there is in CCL.  (In CCL, there's essentially no
> such relationship.)

In concrete terms:
  1.  I installed CCL-1.6 in a separate directory (/tmp/ccl-1.6/), which its
       script driver  /tmp/ccl-1.6/ccl.

  2. I checked out the 1.4.x branch of OpenAxiom:
      svn co https://open-axiom.svn.sf.net/svnroot/open-axiom/1.4.x oa.svn

  3. I configured OpenAxiom with CCL-1.6
       mkdir oa.build    ## sibling to oa.svn
       cd oa.build
        ../oa.svn/configure --with-lisp=/tmp/ccl-1.6/ccl
        ## lot of configure outputs
        make all-boot   ## finishes normally

     b. I configure afresh OpenAxiom with CCL trunk like above but with
             --with-lisp=/tmp/ccl.svn/ccl
         make all-boot  ## fails.

I've looked at all the possibilities.  The symptoms are as I described
before: SAVE-APPLICATION only saves the "prior state" of the global
special variables, not the values they have at the time of SAVE-APPLICATION
(as does CCL-1.6.)

This is on an x86-64 running openSUSE-11.3 (I doubt the linux brand matters).
Are you able to reproduce the success with CCL-1.6 and the failure with
CCL-trunk?

-- Gaby