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bug #40869: self-referential (cyclic) syntax template

Submitter:  John Tobey <jtobey>
Submitted:  Wed 11 Dec 2013 04:04:51 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Scheme language Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Run-time exception Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  bothner
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Fri 20 Dec 2013 08:33:47 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Checked in the patch.

Per Bothner <bothner>
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Mon 16 Dec 2013 01:02:22 PM UTC, comment #4: 

This patch works for me, thanks.

John Tobey <jtobey>
Sun 15 Dec 2013 11:38:52 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Could you try SyntaxTemplate.patch ?
It seems that would still catch cycles, while ruling out some classes of false positives related to macro-generated macros,


(file #29929)

Per Bothner <bothner>
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Sat 14 Dec 2013 08:00:17 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Thanks.  I haven't got as far as debugging the Java, but simply disabling the cycle check works around the problem.

If it is hard to fix in the current design, perhaps a limit of 1000 (or some configurable number) of template expansions would serve the same purpose, albeit less elegantly.  Or an --i-know-what-im-doing flag to disable the check at run time.

In case it helps, at the point of error, form.toString() is "(false)".

John Tobey <jtobey>
Wed 11 Dec 2013 04:27:23 AM UTC, comment #1: 

If you grep though kawa/lang/*Syntax*.java for the string DEBUGGING you'll see things can be uncommented to get debugging output.  If you want to try to debug it yourself, you might find this link a useful (if slightly dated) introduction:
http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/internals/semantic-analysis.html

Per Bothner <bothner>
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Wed 11 Dec 2013 04:04:51 AM UTC, original submission:  

Given this comment in kawa/lang/SyntaxTemplate.java:

            /* FIXME cycles are OK if data are literal. */
            tr.syntaxError("self-referential (cyclic) syntax template");

Would you like me to create a minimal test case?  I do not want to waste my time, since you seem to know about a bug that causes this error.  My program dies with this error under Kawa but works under Chibi.  Looking at my syntax templates, I do not see how they can be cyclic, but they are very complex, so I am unsure.  Perhaps there is some --debug option to print each template as it is applied...

John Tobey <jtobey>

 

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