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Re: MAKE-LOAD-FORM can handle circularities [was Compilation implications]

To: jrose@Sun.COM (John Rose)
Subject: Re: MAKE-LOAD-FORM can handle circularities [was Compilation implications]
From: sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu (Sandra J Loosemore)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 89 09:11:57 MST
Cc: Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM, Gray@DSG.csc.ti.com, jonl@lucid.com, Common-Lisp-Object-System@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU, CL-Compiler@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
In-reply-to: jrose@Sun.COM (John Rose), Tue, 10 Jan 89 19:03:49 PST

Just to set the record straight:

> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 19:03:49 PST
> From: jrose@Sun.COM (John Rose)
> 
> File-level EQ preservation works to restore the embedded
> object reference "for free".

Unfortunately, we don't know yet if file-level EQ preservation works;
see issue CONSTANT-CIRCULAR-COMPILATION.  KCL is one implementation
where COMPILE-FILE/LOAD does not now preserve EQness of structures. 

-Sandra
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