Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-commit] SF.net SVN: axiom: [491]branches/build-improvements

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Weiss, Juergen" <address@hidden> writes:

| > address@hidden writes:
| > As of revision 491, I added a configure option --enable-checking for
| > requesting runtime checking of Lisp codes, e.g. (proclaim '(optimize
| > (safety 3))). 
| > That has the side effect of dramatically increasing the overall
| > compilation time.  In return, you get to know about bugs you did not
| > suspect or did not want to know about.
| > 
| This is not too suprising, when you consider all the mails in this
| newsgroup about errors with the following message
| >> System error:
|     Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged]
| I always wondered why nobody recompiled the system with better error
| checking, to localize these bugs. I'm glad you did that.

Thanks.  
I wish more people will build Axiom with checking on and help
fix some of the "obvious" type error bugs.

-- Gaby