Re: [Axiom-developer] Broken hypertex

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:

| > Le samedi 14 octobre 2006 ? 03:09 +0200, Waldek Hebisch a écrit :
| > > Investigating further I have noticed that gcl-2.6.8pre2 in silver is 
| > > different then gcl-2.6.8pre in build improvements.  In particular
| > > the function object_to_string in gcl-2.6.8pre2/o/cmpaux.c is like
| > > gcl-2.6.7 while the version in gcl-2.6.8pre is different.
| > 
| > Exactly, a typo (& instead of %), no ? I think Camm read this mailing
| > list but writing directly to him would be a good idea.
| > 
| 
| To summarize: both gcl-2.6.7 and gcl-2.6.8pre2 pass address of actual
| data (which is what Axiom expects), gcl-2.6.8pre in build-improvements
| copies strings and passes address of the copy (which breaks hypertex
| interface).  When I change object_to_string in gcl-2.6.8pre to match
| that of gcl-2.6.7 (or gcl-2.6.8pre2) hypertex works.
| 
| Since gcl-2.6.8pre2 seem to be latest gcl version Camm can probably
| just do nothing (just remember so that problem is not re-introduced
| later).

That is interesting.  
gcl-2.6.8pre in build-improvements was updated on September 17, 2006
to reflect what was in GCL cvs tree at the time.

I don't know when gcl-2.6.8pre2 was made.

-- Gaby