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optimizing away noticeable effects

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From: Ian Price <ianprice90 <at> googlemail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 15533 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15533: optimizing away noticeable effects
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:55:36 +0100

Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:

> Using git bisect, I've determined that this bug was introduced in the
> following commit:
>
> commit d21537efb4a0edea30a7ab801909207d4bb69030
> Author: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
> Date:   Fri Feb 15 12:11:29 2013 +0100
>
>     better inlining of `apply' with rest arguments
>     
>     * module/language/tree-il/peval.scm (peval): Move up the find-definition
>       helper.  Use it to speculatively destructure conses and lists into the
>       tail position of an `apply' form.
>     
>     * test-suite/tests/peval.test ("partial evaluation"): Add tests.

Thanks for bisecting mark, I've had a little look and this is the right
patch. The actual error occurs at the very beginning of the loop, in the
variable tail*.

Originally, this was a call (for-value tail), which returned a
lexical-ref. Now it is a call (find-definition tail) which returns a
const ().

We obviously need to have a check for mutability when referring to a
variable, the question is where?

Does it make sense to add it to find-definition? or should we add it
before the use in that case?

-- 
Ian Price -- shift-reset.com

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the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"

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