Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:

| On Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:12 AM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > 
| > Tim Daly (root) writes:
| > 
| > | yep. it turns off the "tail recursion" noise. bill schelter
| > | and i worked on creating tail recursion in AKCL. This was
| > | just a debugging message at the time. For some reason it
| > | outlived its useful life and continues in the current code
| > | base. the message "exposes" lisp to the user of the axiom
| > | interpreter so i removed it.
| > 
| > Tim,
| > 
| > Is there a reason why this code should not be contributed back
| > to GCL so that we don't have to patch GCL all the time?  
| > 
| 
| As far as I know this patch is irrelevant

Great!  I'm preparing a patchlet to remove its application to the
silver branch.

| since the message is controlled by the GCL switch
| 
|   (setq compiler::*suppress-compiler-notes* t)
| 
| http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gcl-devel/2003-09/msg00189.html
| http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gcl-devel/2003-09/msg00195.html

What happened to that proposal to Camm?  That message seems to have
received no public answer...

| Note that the patch is not used on Debian.

That is good.

-- Gaby