Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ubvax!vsi1!altnet!uunet!mcvax!inria!timpit0!diox!hugly From: hugly@diox (C Hugly) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: infinite spill bites again! Summary: infinite spill may occur one or two lines after the faulty one Message-ID: <236@diox> Date: 4 Jul 88 23:41:36 GMT References: <33@libove.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: Microprest, Villejuif (94), France Lines: 21 I also encountered this problem when compiling little smalltalk. After having removed all the "register declarations" witch saved me hours of expression simplifying, i got an infinite spill on such a simple expression. Many trys (some of them very stupid) later i had the divine intuition that the bug occured just two lines after the real cause, whatever those two lines could be. The faulty line whas one using a macro, i turned the macro into a function and never got infinite spills again. by the way: my smalltalk compiled but still dont work...i always get a "index out of range in basicAtPut" when parsing script.ini. Does somebody know about this ? J-C PS: and will somebody tell me what the hell is a spill ! some kind of compiler affection?