Re: lisseq0() problem?

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:

> I see that lisseq0 assumes that it can do gerepileupto().  But if what
> it reads is a function call, "f(whatever)", and f() is a wrapper for a
> C function returning a GEN, the last stack-related operation is what this C function did.
>
> Essentially, lisseq0() assumes that any C function returning a GEN
> returns the data in the same format as gcopy() [i.e., a recursive GEN
> is the *last* chunk in the memory occupied by it and its kids].

Any C function, whose result can be returned as the output of an expression
evaluation by the GP parser, yes.

> Is this intentional?

Yes. It is documented that install'ed functions returning a GEN should
satisfy gerepileupto assumptions [see install() in index, p.190 in 2.2.5]

Writing functions satisfying these assumptions is not a problem in practice
[ either use high-level routines, or build your recursive objects via
low-level access, and finish by gerepilecopy() ].

    Karim.
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