followup to Diverse reader errors with Ilisp 5.11, Emacs 21.2.1 - Fault lies with images made with Ilisp

Lyle Graham <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Jun 2002 12:51:26 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.ilisp.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks to Thomas Burdick (see below), I found out that my problem lies 
with using cores that were made with Ilisp loaded (specfically, with 
CMUCL and Garnet). Although I don't know yet why this is the case, so 
far the core images of the same system, but without Ilisp loaded, seem 
to work fine.

Lyle

>You can't dump a core with ILISP loaded.  If you do, when you try to
>run that image under ILISP, you'll get a bunch of problems, including
>broken completion.  I don't know if this is documented anywhere; I
>discovered it by trying to come up with a small test case for a bug
>report :)
>
>When I want to dump a new core, I make a lisp file with all the forms
>I want to evaluate, testing them with M-C-x, then I run CMUCL from the
>M-x shell command-line, and load that file.
>
> -- 
> /|_ .-----------------------.
> ,' .\ / | No to Imperialist war |
> ,--' _,' | Wage class war! |
> / / `-----------------------'
> ( -. |
> | ) |
> (`-. '--.)
> `. )----' 
>


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