21:19:56Bikeokay, this time the new cleavir floating point stuff compiles down properly.
21:20:03Bikemissed some other smaller bugs in ast to hir. fixed now.
21:40:59drmeisterI found one problem with the dispatch.
21:41:45drmeisterIf a fastgf dispatch fails it checks to make sure that the instances passed as arguments are up to date. If not it updates them.
21:42:12drmeisterTo do that it compares the instance stamp to the stamp that its class would impart on it. If they don't match - the object is out of date.
21:42:50drmeisterIn ECL dispatch it checks if the instances pointer to class slots matches the class slots of the instances class.
21:43:17drmeisterI didn't think to hard and I thought - oh - if one way of checking for obsolete instances is good then two should be better!
21:43:34drmeisterSo I applied both tests - BRRAAAPPPP - wrong.
21:44:16drmeisterJust use the stamp test. The other test runs into problems - for reasons I haven't sorted out yet.
21:46:18drmeisterYeah - structures are implemented as instances of the C++ class Instance_O and the pointer to the class slots is NIL.