Re: Guile bailing out with "uncaught throw to wrong-type-arg" on amd64 Linux

[Andreas Rottmann]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Sun 12 Sep 2010 13:11, Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> % GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ./meta/gdb-uninstalled-guile -q
>
> I'm curious about the load_extension. I recently fixed up some things in
> master that should simplify our "test matrix", so to speak, and would be
> interested to see if you can try this again.
>
Now I additionally get an "unterminated `#! ... !#' comment error:

  GEN    guile-procedures.texi
ERROR: In procedure skip_block_comment:
ERROR: /home/rotty/src/guile/guile-tools:1:2: unterminated `#! ... !#' comment
guile: uncaught throw to wrong-type-arg: (#f Wrong type (expecting ~A): ~S 
(exact integer (#t #<catch-closure 34c2b20> #<catch-closure 34c2ae0> 
#<catch-closure 34c2aa0>)) ((#t #<catch-closure 34c2b20> #<catch-closure 
34c2ae0> #<catch-closure 34c2aa0>)))
make[3]: *** [guile-procedures.texi] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rotty/src/guile/_build/libguile'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rotty/src/guile/_build/libguile'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rotty/src/guile/_build'
make: *** [all] Error 2
build/install failed

Inside GDB, the issue looks different now:

% GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ./meta/gdb-uninstalled-guile -q
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2-debian
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from 
/home/rotty/src/guile/_build/libguile/.libs/lt-guile...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/rotty/src/guile/_build/libguile/.libs/lt-guile -q
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7ffff5e2e710 (LWP 7312)]

Program received signal SIGPWR, Power fail/restart.
[Switching to Thread 0x7ffff5e2e710 (LWP 7312)]
0x00007ffff6d99ebd in read () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:82
82      ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S: No such file or directory.
        in ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S
(gdb)

Regards, Rotty
-- 
Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>