Re: [Chicken-users] string-ref problem

[felix]

Joerg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had more problems with string-ref and chicken.  Apparently it's
> seriously broken.  I checked chicken.h in version 1.9 we have
>
> #define C_make_character(c)       ((((c) & 0xff) << 8) | C_CHARACTER_BITS)
> #define C_character_code(x)       (((x) >> 8) & 0xff)
>
> 1.10 shows
>
> #define C_make_character(c)       ((((c) & 0xffff) << 8) | C_CHARACTER_BITS)
> #define C_character_code(x)       (((x) >> 8) & 0xffff)
>
> is there any reason not to change back?

This was, in fact, a preparatory "fix" for allowing 16-bit characters.
But it turned out to break "C_subchar()" which extracts a char from
a string and treated it as signed.

I fixed the latter, so the current CVS version should work, now.


cheers,
felix