terrible error reporting when fasl-loading symbols in unknown packages
Bug #553943 reported by
Attila Lendvai
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| SBCL |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Bug Description
fasl loading doesn't report useful messages in case of errors.
a situation i've met several times: due to an accidental redefinition, a macro expansion contains symbols from packages that are not part of the dependency. then compiling a fasl will emit symbols in the fasl whose package is not available next time the library is loaded into a fresh VM.
in these situation fasl loading dies in find-undeleted-
| Changed in sbcl: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| summary: |
- wanted: better error reporting from fasl loading + wanted: better error reporting from fasl loading symbols in unknown + packages |
| Changed in sbcl: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| tags: | added: fasl |
| Changed in sbcl: | |
| importance: | Wishlist → Medium |
| summary: |
- wanted: better error reporting from fasl loading symbols in unknown - packages + terrible error reporting when fasl-loading symbols in unknown packages |
| Changed in sbcl: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| assignee: | nobody → Nikodemus Siivola (nikodemus) |
Revision history for this message
| Alastair Bridgewater (alastair-bridgewater) wrote | #1 |
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| Alastair Bridgewater (alastair-bridgewater) wrote | #2 |
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| Alastair Bridgewater (alastair-bridgewater) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in sbcl: | |
| assignee: | Nikodemus Siivola (nikodemus) → nobody |
Revision history for this message
| Stas Boukarev (stassats) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in sbcl: | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| Changed in sbcl: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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To be really clever, one would modify the fasdumper to prepare a table of all symbols used in a particular package, so that it could dump them all at the same time, and use a single (new) FOP to load them all at once, which would lead to being able to say "the following symbols were dumped from missing package FOO...", but that's a lot more work to implement.