The June snapshot has been tagged and binaries will be
uploaded soon.
One notable change in this snapshot is that the save-lisp
issue[1] has
a workaround. I can no longer cause save-lisp to hang or
produce
type-errors anymore. However, I did not find the real cause
of the
problem, but the workaround seems to fix the problem.
I hope this is useful.
Ray
Footnotes:
[1] The save-lisp issue has been around for a year or more
and
manifests itself by not being able to save a new core file.
This
usually happens in newly started lisp. A GC sometimes fixes
things or
loading some code or other allocating stuff. The culprit
appears to
be some object in the static space pointing to some instance
on the
heap. However, that instance is in an unused part of the
heap that
wasn't initialized from the core file. I don't know how
this gets
happens. The workaround basically ends up saving a little
more of the
heap into the core file, preserving the instance.
I wish I knew the actual reason. The workaround is just a
workaround. I don't have the real solution.
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