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 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

Tim,

  According to that message all but two of your patches to GCL would
be already present in GCL.  Please could you clarify why we are still
keeping more than patches for GCL?

-- Gaby