On Friday, October 27, 2006 1:01 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > Waldek Hebisch writes: > ... > | > | >> System error: > | Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged] > > I've been running into this "memory may be damaged" stuff very > often these days ]with students, everything is possible :-)]. > Most of them happens on invalid syntax and such. The system > should be more resilient should not corrupt memory just because > of syntax errors and such. >
Actually I believe that in *most* cases this error message greatly over states the case and is probably rather poorly choosen from a user psychology point of view. (Many of Axiom error message suffer from this.) In spite of this message, have not seen any clear evidence of corrupt memory. Really this is a Lisp issue and my experience with GCL is that in spite of some surprising things that it does to manage memory, it does in fact do quite a good job. I'd be interested if you have any evidence actual memory problems. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
