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

[Page, Bill]

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
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gcl-devel/2003-09/msg00195.html

Note that the patch is not used on Debian.

Regards,
Bill Page.