Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site bcsaic.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!bcsaic!michaelm From: michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael b maxwell) Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp Subject: problem w/ declare localf in Frantz on SUNs Message-ID: <291@bcsaic.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 17:54:16 EDT Article-I.D.: bcsaic.291 Posted: Thu Sep 12 17:54:16 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 04:26:03 EDT Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle Lines: 18 We have a Frantz LISP program which is entirely contained in a single file. I decided to experiment with various things to speed it up, one of which was using (declare (localf func1 func2...)), where all the func's are listed except the one I call at the top level. The program bombs with the error message "Illegal instruction (core dumped)" on the SUN. I have a rough idea of where the failure occurs; it seems to have to do with either/both the fact that we're using defstruct (it fails when a certain function tries to access a record in the structure) and the fact that we have several "special" variables. Short of trying to figure out something from the coredump, I'm at a loss. Furthermore, the same program runs happily on our VAX (which is running Ultrix), although it doesn't give the promised speed-up (we have translink set to on; are localf and translink somehow doing the same thing?). Since the SUN is running BSD 4.2, this seems strange... Any ideas? Has anyone else had this problem? -- Mike Maxwell Any wrong opinions expressed in the above are someone else's fault.