Re: Strange lock-ups with simple E program
Mark Miller <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.e.general |
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Kevin Reid<[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 24, 2009, at 9:53, Thomas Leonard wrote: >> java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed: OldFarRef may only be smashed: >> <Far >> ref> >> ... >> error: problem: <ViciousCycleException: Caught in a forwarding loop> > [...] > In particular, either of these errors indicates a bogus resolution: > the first is that a Far ref, since it is settled, cannot be resolved > to another ref (other than a broken ref); the second is an attempt to > resolve a promise to itself. > > MarkM? Yes, this is what these two errors mean. A correction to my previous message: I have occasionally seen the FarRef problem in ways I couldn't reproduce. I have not seen the ViciousCycleException. -- Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain Cheers, --MarkM