Re: [Axiom-developer] Nice Fixes! Another go on IssueTracker

[root]

>> Take, for instance, bug 370. There the original bug fix was to change the
>> algebra code from (something like)
>> 
>>   f(a+b)
>> 
>> to 
>> 
>>   c:=a+b
>>   f(c)
>> 
>> When I went to apply this patch it didn't look right. But there was no
>> documentation about what the patch was intended to do.  It eventually turned
>> out that the correct patch was to fix the spad compiler.
>
>Sorry, but do you really mean 
>
>http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/370ImproperCodeEmmitedByMkUnionFunListImpactsDefintrfSpad
>
>? I cannot see any algebra code there - of course, possibly only the proper fix
>(by Stephen Wilson) was sent to IssueTracker, but I'd like to make sure.
>
>Many thanks for clarification,

Yes, that's the bug. 
The original fix was in the algebra.
I didn't think the original patch made sense and I started 
debugging the generated code, leading to the compiler.
Stephen Wilson found and fixed the compiler bug.

Tim