Re: freeze for sbcl-2.6.3

I think I fixed it, but I haven't retested without /dev/tty

On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 9:03 PM Douglas Katzman via Sbcl-devel
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> Andreas, I think you do have a valid point. A ppc64 configuration exists that crashes on startup. The problem I have is in the approach you took.
> First of all you could have started with a question like "is ppc64 known to be building fine?" rather than just "fix ppc64" when it ostensibly isn't broken.
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> So not having started with the question, you got right into a diagnosis which is almost 100% wrong. Claiming x86-64 as different is wrong, and even if were an exception, that doesn't explain all the other platforms that work.  And anything about elfcore is flat-out wrong because nothing uses elfcore by default. And no platform avoids calling through the linkage table.  So when we are presented with all these dubious "facts" it casts doubt on everything else you're saying. Finally, the patch itself isn't what I would have done: if foreign-reinit needs to be called sooner, just call it sooner.
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> A way to have expressed yourself so that developers don't dismiss it as AI-slop would have been more like:
> - I think there is a configuration of ppc64 which can crash on startup because <blah>.  Granted this is an unusual configuration, one which has no controlling TTY.  When that occurs, then sqrt gets called before it has a linkage table entry through the following chain of calls
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>  And then maybe ask how to fix it instead of just sending "fix ppc64". I think your approach caused >1 developer to just disregard that patch if not also the other well-intended patches
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