| Job | Status | Priority | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| job000401 | suspended | essential | Long path names under mps/import |
| job000402 | open | optional | Imported MPS mail messages lack their attachments |
| job000415 | closed | essential | several reference manual entries omit arena arguments |
| job000441 | closed | critical | PoolAMC sometimes fails !arena->insideShield check |
| job000462 | closed | essential | PoolAWL only works for Dylan objects. |
| job000502 | closed | essential | PoolAWL doesn't work with auto_header formats |
| job000506 | closed | essential | PoolAMS doesn't work with auto-header formats |
| job000531 | closed | essential | MPS doesn't have "incremental step" function for clients |
| job000534 | closed | essential | No varieties are doing any checking |
| job000535 | closed | essential | Interior ambiguous pointers can give PoolAMS a headache |
| job000536 | closed | essential | release readme.txt doesn't have a "what's new" section |
| job000537 | open | optional | Many design documents missing |
| job000538 | open | optional | Project documents are poorly formatted |
| job000539 | closed | essential | Some external symbols are missing from the reference manual |
| job000540 | closed | essential | Reference manual symbol coverage needs reorganizing |
| job000541 | closed | essential | Reference manual needs subject sections |
| job000542 | closed | essential | No MPS user manual |
| job000543 | open | optional | No MPS programmer's guide |
| job000544 | closed | essential | Reference manual mentions a number of obsolete symbols |
| job000545 | closed | optional | mpstd.h defines unused symbol MPS_T_SHORT for some platforms |
| job000546 | closed | essential | MPS docs say P4DTI instead of MPS |
| job000547 | closed | essential | Reference manual has lots of missing spaces |
| job000548 | open | optional | AMS grain colour doesn't agree with design doc |
| job000549 | open | optional | Blackening an AMS segment can break |
| job000550 | open | optional | BufferEmpty on AMS in mid-collection can break |
| job000553 | suspended | essential | MPS releases should include binaries |
| job000599 | closed | essential | MPS doesn't build on Mac OS X 10.2 |
| job000601 | closed | essential | MPS compile fails under Mac OS X 10.2 |
| job000602 | closed | essential | Mac OS X 10.2 build fails because "cabs" is already defined |
| job000604 | closed | essential | MPS doesn't work with gcc 2.96 |
| job000605 | closed | critical | mpmss fails to link on w3i3mv |
| job000646 | closed | essential | Builds on FreeBSD stopped working |
| job000647 | closed | essential | mps_arena_step disregards its argument |
| job000648 | closed | essential | Should make wi variety with the other default varieties |
| job000649 | closed | essential | No way to just start a world-collection |
| job000652 | open | essential | mps_arena_destroy may crash if some objects aren't destroyed |
| job000666 | closed | essential | Difficult to tell what collections are happening |
| job000668 | closed | essential | Build procedure uses p4 counter change which is unsafe |
| job000677 | open | nice | Insufficient stuff has been converted from MMinfo to Ravenbrook Project repository |
| job000741 | closed | critical | Should be able to use mps_arena_has_addr from a heap walking function |
| job000742 | open | nice | Some niggles annoy DRJ |
| job000812 | suspended | critical | MPS crashes Mysteriously with Win2K / Office XP |
| job000813 | closed | essential | Can't access memory without hitting MPS protection barrier. |
| job000814 | open | nice | Configura cannot manage Lightworks objects with the MPS |
| job000818 | suspended | critical | Performance of mps_arena_expose is too slow for Configura |
| job000825 | closed | critical | mps_arena_unsafe_expose / restore does not work with finalization |
| job000973 | closed | essential | MPS doesn't compile under Mac OS X 10.3.4 |
| job001084 | closed | essential | MPS does not build with "sh configure;make;make install" |
| job001091 | suspended | optional | MPS treats all Linuxes the same. |
| job001092 | open | essential | MPS is not integrated with cool projects. |
| job001096 | closed | essential | The MPS is not a Windows DLL |
| job001105 | closed | essential | MPS doesn't compile on FreeBSD current [fill in version here] |
| job001139 | closed | essential | project/mps has no private sub-tree for commercial stuff |
| job001144 | open | nice | Some minor hope dependencies exist in test suite |
| job001145 | open | optional | Many (mmqa) tests fail on OS X |
| job001146 | closed | essential | MPS does not implement a stack scanner for OS X / PowerPC |
| job001147 | closed | essential | MPS on OS X needs a protection module in order to be faster |
| job001149 | open | optional | MPS does not provide sufficient information about addresses |
| job001150 | open | essential | MPS doesn't provide enough feedback information about what it is doing or what it has done |
| job001151 | open | essential | Format methods can't look at other data |
| job001152 | open | essential | The MPS can't be used to simulate a smaller machine |
| job001153 | open | critical | The MPS lacks error recovery mechanisms |
| job001154 | closed | essential | MPS documentation gives no guidance for when client wants foreign code to use mps-allocated memory |
| job001155 | open | essential | full collects cause gigantic ramps |
| job001156 | closed | optional | MPS cannot queue a message when a weak thing goes away |
| job001157 | closed | essential | [INVALID] variety white-hot has asserts; hot has none |
| job001158 | closed | essential | variety design does not meet requirements of open-source MPS |
| job001159 | closed | essential | MPS contains asserts that don't indicate which problem occurred |
| job001161 | open | nice | there is no human-helpful map of MPS files |
| job001248 | closed | nice | (source clarity) Badly named CHECK macros in config.h, check.h are confusing |
| job001255 | closed | nice | MPS expgen.sh is broken, at least on Mac OS X 10.4.2 |
| job001352 | closed | critical | MPS build fails (Linux, Unix) with libcbt link error: multiple definitions of mps_lib_ fns; because mps.a includes plinth (it should not). |
| job001357 | open | nice | Configura cannot use Win32 fibers |
| job001360 | closed | nice | Configura cannot efficiently use SEH. |
| job001365 | closed | critical | build broken on w3 (Windows) with Visual C++ 7.0 |
| job001366 | closed | critical | default "all" build broken on w3 (Windows) with Visual C++ 6.0 |
| job001367 | closed | essential | MPS lacks walkthrough example code (aka "hello-world") for beginners |
| job001369 | closed | nice | MPS proc/release-build omits step: update main MPS index page |
| job001370 | closed | optional | MPS RefMan is not valid XHTML |
| job001383 | closed | essential | MPS lacks example GC code - a "hello-world with GC" for beginners |
| job001384 | open | nice | MPS unclear constraints on avgSize argument to PoolMV mps_pool_create |
| job001386 | open | nice | MPS website has no FAQ |
| job001395 | closed | essential | MPS build failure on Linux with glibc 2.3: wrong defines before system includes |
| job001421 | closed | optional | MPS default "all" build omits plinth (mpsplan.a/.lib) and (on w3) mps.lib |
| job001429 | closed | optional | MPS lacks documentation on how to use allocation points |
| job001455 | closed | critical | MPS LO pool: mps_arena_formatted_objects_walk fails with AVER(i < j) |
| job001530 | closed | essential | Intel OS X builds are not possible. |
| job001543 | closed | optional | MPS mpsicv (test) on OS X does not use reg&stack scanner. |
| job001544 | closed | optional | MPS mpsicv coverage test source does not have ifndef CONFIG_PF_XCI3GC |
| job001545 | closed | critical | MPS hot varieties do no AVERs or other checking |
| job001546 | closed | critical | MPS hot varieties gather tuning statistics |
| job001547 | closed | essential | Configura builds do not include a hot variety |
| job001548 | closed | critical | MPS assertion in trace.c: RefSetSub(ss.unfixedSummary, SegSummary(seg)) |
| job001549 | open | essential | MPS assert !AMS_IS_INVALID_COLOUR(seg, i) poolams.c AMSFix |
| job001550 | open | essential | MPS poolams.c AMSFix omits checks: clientRef is within seg; bit index is valid |
| job001556 | closed | optional | MPS defect in BS_IS_SINGLE could make some checks ineffective |
| job001569 | closed | nice | MPS lacks internal documentation for Shield abstraction |
| job001570 | closed | optional | MPS _gc_start messages may change while client reads them, or be silently skipped |
| job001571 | open | nice | MPS multiple traces would not work |
| job001617 | closed | essential | MPS Intel Mac OS X fails to compile: amsss.c |
| job001618 | closed | essential | Stack Scanner for Linux and FreeBSD is not shared. |
| job001619 | closed | essential | OS X Intel needs stack scanner. |
| job001621 | open | essential | Can't use threads on OS X. |
| job001622 | closed | essential | Client can't multithread on OS X. |
| job001624 | closed | critical | MPS doesn't build on FreeBSD 5.5 |
| job001634 | closed | critical | MPS fails under Rosetta. |
| job001635 | closed | essential | On Unix, signal handler is not installed correctly. |
| job001636 | closed | essential | Too much Unix code is dangerously copied and not shared. |
| job001637 | closed | essential | Linux build fails. |
| job001639 | closed | optional | Configura would like "control over finalization promptness" |
| job001658 | closed | essential | Finalization messages are unnecessarily delayed. |
| job001659 | open | essential | Culprit analysis is too hard. |
| job001665 | closed | essential | Weakness is not well documented. |
| job001666 | open | optional | No guarantee that all weak references to an object die together. |
| job001669 | closed | essential | Developers can't debug MPS on OS X. |
| job001676 | open | essential | AMC does not implement weakness in emergency fixing. |
| job001681 | open | essential | AMCHeaderFix is an unnecessary copy. |
| job001682 | open | nice | AMCWalk does not honour its contract |
| job001687 | open | essential | AWL does not recycle memory to the arena. |
| job001688 | open | essential | AMC repeatedly allocates and initialises identical SegPrefs |
| job001706 | closed | essential | MPS PoolAMC could (if no shield cache) assert in LockClaim |
| job001707 | open | essential | VM Arena never shrinks a generation zone set preferences. |
| job001708 | open | essential | VM Arena's segment placement policy could be improved. |
| job001709 | open | essential | VM Arena uses up zones too quickly. |
| job001714 | closed | optional | MPS xcppgc (Mac OS X PowerPC) is built with outdated compiler flags |
| job001715 | open | essential | MPS fails to lower barrier when hit: multiple hits cause slowdown (CONJECTURE) |
| job001737 | closed | essential | MPS: VMArena growth is brittle, does not fallback to smaller growth increment |
| job001784 | closed | critical | MPS AMC pool + auto_header format: nailboards leak ControlPool memory |
| job001785 | closed | essential | Unclear whether base or client pointer passed to pad method of format auto-header |
| job001789 | open | nice | MPS auto_header format is not tested by main test files |
| job001809 | closed | essential | MPS ambiguous internal pointer makes AMC pool retain memory as pads |
| job001811 | closed | optional | MPS AMC small nailed objects risk big retention by placement after big objects |
| job001887 | open | optional | MPS mps_arena_committed() is wrong when using mps_arena_class_cl (client arena) |
| job001934 | closed | essential | MPS VC9 build failure C4996: getenv considered insecure |
| job001935 | closed | critical | MPS DLL link error: mps_arena_vm_growth is not exported |
| job001936 | closed | essential | MPS: Configura releases are missing .def file needed to re-export MPS functions |
| job001944 | closed | essential | MPS lacks separate w3i3m9 platform for building with VC9 (Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0) |
| job001945 | closed | essential | MPS buildsys CONFIG_PF_* does not select a platform, is not checked by mpstd.h |
| job001966 | closed | optional | MPS mpsi_check() does not check message type constants |
| job001968 | closed | essential | MPS clients get no synchronous alert of collection begin/end |
| job001969 | closed | essential | MPS gc-start and -end messages give no idea of timing |
| job001989 | closed | critical | MPS _gc_start messages may cause assert or infinite loop |
| job002148 | closed | essential | MPS: mps_lib_callback_register breaks .def file for re-exporting MPS functions |
| job002171 | closed | essential | MPS: obsolete mpsdy.dll and mpslibcb mechanism is still present in builds and source |
| job002175 | open | optional | MPS unaligned references are not detected by AMC pools |
| job002179 | suspended | nice | MPS client code cannot determine MPS Version at compile time |
| job002205 | closed | critical | MPS collection runs too slow if client allocates big objects |
| job002206 | closed | nice | MPS some internal tests leave arena parked after mps_arena_collect() |
| job002209 | closed | essential | MPS client cannot determine pool or format, given object address |
| job002248 | closed | essential | MPS virtual memory arena class never returns virtual memory |
| job002257 | closed | optional | MPS (diagnostic variety only) floating point exception after a collection |
| job003301 | closed | critical | Bogus assertion iswrite == 0 || iswrite == 1 on Windows |
| job003302 | open | optional | mps_arena_create fails with deep consistency checks |
| job003315 | closed | nice | mps.h defines the macro MPS_T_WORD |
| job003316 | closed | optional | User guide doesn't explain how to choose object format alignment |
| job003317 | closed | optional | Requirements for fixing tagged references are unclear |
| job003318 | open | nice | No interface to get collection number from a gc start message |
| job003319 | closed | nice | MVT creation takes "integer percentage" argument |
| job003320 | closed | optional | mps_arena_step unclamps the arena |
| job003321 | closed | optional | Private symbols in mps.h are missing underscores |
| job003322 | open | optional | External interface contains useless "fixed" object format |
| job003323 | open | optional | Varargs interfaces are hard to use |
| job003324 | open | nice | Manual contains little about performance of interface |
| job003325 | open | nice | Purpose of the "class" method of an object format is unclear |
| job003326 | open | optional | Purpose of mps_arena_class_vmnz is unclear |
| job003327 | open | optional | Purpose of reservoirs is unclear |
| job003328 | open | nice | Possible improvement to reserve/commit protocol |
| job003329 | closed | optional | Purpose of mps_alert_collection_set is unclear |
| job003330 | closed | optional | Unclear which threads need to call mps_tramp |
| job003331 | closed | optional | eventcnv appears to hang if you specify a small bucket size |
| job003332 | closed | optional | eventcnv outputs an empty bucket when you specify a bucket size |
| job003333 | closed | optional | eventcnv produces bogus output if you pass -b but not -e |
| job003334 | closed | optional | eventcnv output has bogus timestamp on totals row in CSV format |
| job003335 | closed | optional | eventcnv's bucket aggregation is broken |
| job003337 | closed | optional | Example Scheme interpreter crashes in append |
| job003338 | closed | optional | Example Scheme interpreter does not finalize ports |
| job003340 | closed | optional | MPS_TELEMETRY_CONTROL=65535 is ugly and not future-proof |
| job003341 | open | optional | Unclear how to destroy a pool containing objects registered for finalization |
| job003342 | open | optional | mps_arena_unsafe functions are bogus |
| job003343 | open | nice | Documentation could say more about meaning of result codes |
| job003344 | open | nice | Purpose of allocation frames/SNC pool class are unclear |
| job003348 | open | optional | Unclear what happens if a thread dies while registered |
| job003349 | closed | optional | Unclear what mps_SEH functions are for |
| job003350 | open | nice | Purpose of manual pool classes is unclear |
| job003351 | open | nice | Debugging pool classes are hard to use |
| job003352 | open | optional | Instruction emulation not supported on OS X or x86-64 |
| job003353 | open | nice | Collection start reason hard to analyze |
| job003356 | closed | critical | Assertion in SegSetGrey when using AMCZ |
| job003357 | open | nice | AWL is awkward to use |
| job003359 | open | critical | Ambiguous interior pointers do not keep objects alive |
| job003367 | closed | essential | Can't run tests via "make test" |
| job003368 | closed | optional | MFS has no public interface |
| job003370 | open | critical | Assertion failure in AMS: "grey == TraceSetEMPTY || SegRankSet(seg) != RankSetEMPTY" |
| job003371 | open | essential | MPS spends too much time making system calls |
| job003374 | open | optional | No documentation about low memory situations |
| job003384 | open | essential | Collector goes mad when low on address space |
| job003385 | open | essential | Performance is poor in large address space |
| job003386 | closed | optional | Telemetry control interface is poorly designed |
| job003387 | open | essential | Multiple arenas can corrupt telemetry stream |
| job003388 | open | essential | telemetry system API can corrupt telemetry stream |
| job003411 | closed | nice | MPS doesn't make use of __builtin_readcyclecounter on OS X |
| job003412 | closed | critical | Assertion failure in TraceScanAreaMasked on Linux |
| job003413 | closed | nice | Typos in documentation, comments |
| job003414 | closed | essential | No test case for multi-threaded stack scanning |
| job003430 | closed | essential | Can't run test suite on OS X |
| job003431 | closed | optional | Hard to tell which test case failed |
| job003432 | closed | essential | amcsshe test failure |
| job003433 | closed | essential | mpsicv test failure |
| job003434 | closed | essential | Incorrect glossary link from "committed" to "mapping" |
| job003435 | closed | essential | Rehashing large hash tables breaks nursery collection strategy |
| job003436 | closed | essential | awlut test failure |
| job003438 | closed | nice | arena->serial is always 0 |
| job003439 | open | essential | MPS is too hard to use |
| job003440 | closed | essential | amcss test failure |
| job003443 | closed | optional | No coverage testing |
| job003445 | closed | optional | MPS docs don't link to live project site |
| job003446 | suspended | nice | Optimization possibility for NOTREACHED in RASH variety |
| job003448 | open | optional | mps_arena_vm_growth is not documented |
| job003450 | closed | optional | No build procedure for manual |
| job003454 | closed | optional | Ramp use can break generation chain with bad performance consequences |
| job003455 | open | optional | Frequent ramps can mess up the ramping algorithm and cause performance problems |
| job003469 | closed | essential | CET can't safely make use of the top 2GiB of memory on 32-bit Windows |
| job003470 | closed | optional | Test program qs.c fails to compile on Ubuntu 10.04 |
| job003471 | open | optional | mps_root_create_table is hard to use without punning |
| job003472 | closed | optional | Test output always goes to mps-XXXXXX.log on some platforms |
| job003473 | closed | essential | MPS doesn't build on FreeBSD 9.1 |
| job003474 | open | essential | amcssth test failure on lii6gc |
| job003476 | open | optional | No automated testrun target on Windows |
| job003477 | open | essential | MPS is hard to build and debug on Windows |
| job003479 | closed | optional | Some forward declarations of *ClassGet() functions are wrong |
| job003480 | open | nice | awluthe test failure on OS X |
| job003481 | closed | nice | Test case seed generation is not random enough |
| job003482 | open | nice | Test suite doesn't test error paths |
| job003483 | closed | nice | mv2test.c contains a redundant random number generator |
| job003484 | open | optional | MPS has predictable address space layout |
| job003485 | open | optional | Information about cause of errors is lost |
| job003486 | closed | essential | mv2test failure |
| job003487 | open | optional | Pool debug options are awkward to pass |
| job003489 | closed | optional | Test fail logs are lost forever on build servers |
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