lolevel check error on NetBSD

[Kooda]

While trying out the latest release candidate of CHICKEN (4.10.0rc2) on my NetBSD machine, I stumbled upon that error when performing make check:

======================================== lolevel tests ...

Error: assertion failed: (equal? (quote (hello 1 2)) (foo 1 2))

        Call history:

        <eval>    (eq? foo new-foo)
        <syntax>          (assert (equal? (quote (hello 1 2)) (foo 1 2)))
        <syntax>          (##core#let ((tmp154 (equal? (quote (hello 1 2)) (foo 1 2)))) (##core#if (##core#check tmp154) tmp15......
        <syntax>          (##core#begin (##core#if (##core#check tmp154) tmp154 (##sys#error "assertion failed" (##core#quote ...
        <syntax>          (##core#if (##core#check tmp154) tmp154 (##sys#error "assertion failed" (##core#quote (equal? (quote......
        <syntax>          (##core#check tmp154)
        <syntax>          (##sys#error "assertion failed" (##core#quote (equal? (quote (hello 1 2)) (foo 1 2))))
        <syntax>          (##core#quote (equal? (quote (hello 1 2)) (foo 1 2)))
        <syntax>          (equal? (quote (hello 1 2)) (foo 1 2))
        <syntax>          (quote (hello 1 2))
        <syntax>          (##core#quote (hello 1 2))
        <syntax>          (foo 1 2)
        <eval>    (equal? (quote (hello 1 2)) (foo 1 2))
        <eval>    (foo 1 2)
        <eval>    [foo] (list a b)
        <eval>    (##sys#error "assertion failed" (##core#quote (equal? (quote (hello 1 2)) (foo 1 2))))        <--
rules.make:658: recipe for target 'check' failed
gmake: *** [check] Error 70

I then tried to run a git bisect to pinpoint when this error appeared for the first time (I ran the bisect with a fresh bootstrap each time).
It led me to the following commit: a3b8a0adf77a9a7ec65a66918a84c2bbda0f97cc

Please let me know if you need any more details and further testing.
I’ll try to investigate as well.

[Kooda]

The test doesn’t fail with clang 3.5.0 on the same platform.
The previous (failing) result was using gcc 4.8.4 for x86.

[Kooda]

I just tested 4.10.0rc4 with my system upgraded, with gcc 4.8.5, I get the exact same error.

I also tried the argvector branch and all checks pass without error.

[sjamaan]

I'm guessing argvector may fix this, then. Let's keep it open for 4.11 (argvector hasn't been merged yet)

[sjamaan]

argvector has now been merged