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15:09:22
Bike
drmeister: so here's one thing - bclasp version doesn't actually use anything in fastgf.cc except cc_read_stamp, so i could just move it and then use it normally
15:10:23
Bike
we'll also want to inline slot accessors, i just remembered, but we can probably do that similarly
15:19:43
beach
Am I understanding you right that you want to remove the bespoke compiler in favor of the existing bclasp compiler for discriminating functions?
15:23:51
beach
I am always in favor of decreasing the maintenance burden, but it is less of a problem for Clasp than for me, given that drmeister has an order of magnitude more work capacity than I do.
15:28:05
Bike
but the main reason is just that if we have common lisp source for discriminating functions, we can put them in fasls. that's nice.
16:53:42
Bike
it's that plus we have like two other tables of special operators, plus it gets even weirder when cleavir is loaded
18:40:08
Bike
well, it's a call to Vaslist::next_arg_raw, and it's under invalidated-entry-point, so i was guessing in a discriminating function somewhere.
18:41:22
drmeister
Can you put this at the top of that function: printf("%s:%d preVaslist -> %p\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, (void*)preVaslist);
18:53:15
moony_
It's so difficult to compile my current PC flat out can't do it haha. Glad i'm going to be replacing it around the end of the month
18:57:47
moony_
drmeister: altho, depending on how you define "of consequence", The Powder Toy (Which i help on) counts. It only takes a minute and a half to build on my AMD A12-9700P (read: horrible) CPU
19:01:42
drmeister
Connect lldb and use: memory read -Gx8g 0x7ffee462e048 and check if it's a va_list followed by a size_t
19:01:57
moony_
drmeister: idk never counted. Enough, in my opinion. We don't need more code like, uh i dunno, the entirety of the simulation? haha.
19:02:14
moony_
https://github.com/ThePowderToy/The-Powder-Toy/blob/master/src/simulation/Simulation.cpp
19:03:53
moony_
it so badly needs a refactor, yet at the same time there's so much behavior not even the guys who work on it the most know about that we can't do it without breaking things
19:05:08
drmeister
I don't get why there is no tag - so check if the memory read shows us something like the va_list structure above.
21:16:17
Bike
hm. they're just identity functions, presumably detritus from BLOCK and TAGBODY and stuff when they dono't have to do anything nonlocal