Re: [Axiom-developer] Broken hypertex

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:
| > 
| > | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > | > Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:
| > | > 
| > | > | Playing with build-improvements I have noticed that hypertex is 
broken:
| > | > 
| > | > Is that reproducible with silver?
| > | > 
| > | 
| > | Probably no: when I tried build-improvements with gcl-2.6.7 the problem
| > | went away.
| > 
| > Interesting.
| > 
| > We have a case to investigate.  I seem to remember, but I'm not sure,
| > that the socket interface may have changed from 2.6.7 to 2.6.8pre.
| > Bill?
| 
| As I wrote in original message the problem seem to be with passing
| strings from Lisp to C functions.  AFAICS sockio.lisp.pamphlet
| assumes that it will pass pointer to original string buffer. But
| apparently gcl passes pointer to a copy.  Code to pass strings
| (in lsp/gcl-2.6.8pre/o/cmpaux.c) changed slightly compared to
| gcl-2.6.7, so maybe this is the reason.

I understand your description.  I was trying to relate it to a much
bigger picture.  I was asking Bill whether that is the incompatible
changes in GCL-2.6.8pre's socket stuff he told me about at the last  Axiom
conference call.  

It is important that as we work on "fixing" things, we do clearly
understand what we are fixing.

-- Gaby