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[armedbear-devel] FSet on ABCL
by Alessio Stalla 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Greetings, as part of my nth plan to conquer the world (which of course I won't unveil right now), I tried FSet on ABCL. I managed to make it run, but I had to patch it; you can find the patch attached (it's taken against the version in Quicklisp, but I believe it's the latest version). Besides some minor #+abcl porting stuff, the one thing that stuck out was the DEFLEX macro for defining global lexical variables, which conflicts with ABCL's implementation of symbol macros. (deflex var) expands basically into (define-symbol-macro var (symbol-value 'var)). The problem: ABCL stores symbol macros in the value cell of symbols, so you can't have a symbol which is both a variable and a symbol macro. Now, I believe deflex as written is non portable CL. This is because accessing the symbol-value of an unbound variable is, to my interpretation, unspecified [*]; and if you use defvar/defparameter with var, then you cannot use it as a symbol macro. Thus, I patched it (taking inspiration from Rob Warnock's version of deflex/defglobal). However, I do think ABCL's implementation is very brittle (and probably conflicting with ANSI as well), because if you setf the symbol-value of a symbol with a global symbol macro attached, you remove the symbol macro! So, I think we should fix it for 1.0.1. Perhaps I can do the fix myself, but we better discuss it before because I fear this might be a deep change. [*] symbol-value ... Accesses the symbol's value cell. [1] value cell n. Trad. (of a symbol) The place which holds the value, if any, of the dynamic variable named by that symbol, and which is accessed by symbol-value. [2] dynamic variable n. a variable the binding for which is in the dynamic environment. [3] I don't think a symbol for which there is no special declaration in scope can be considered to name a dynamic variable, and thus to have a value cell at all. [1] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_symb_5.htm#symbol-v… [2] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/26_glo_v.htm#value_ce… [3] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/26_glo_d.htm#dynamic_… Cheers, Alessio

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[armedbear-devel] Support for specialized arrays?
by Blake McBride 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Greetings, I presume ABCL supports specialized arrays (element-type:) syntactically but I am wondering if ABCL actually creates more efficient, type specific, arrays rather than generic, arrays of objects? Thanks. Blake McBride

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Re: [armedbear-devel] bug of resolve-symlinks
by Gábor Balázs 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

hY, I think there is a bug in the list-directory function. The resolve-symlinks flag seems to always resolve the directory symlinks even when the flag is set to nil. Let's have a directory as : total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 bege users 4096 Oct 23 23:52 dir lrwxrwxrwx 1 bege users 3 Oct 23 23:53 dir-link -> dir -rw-r--r-- 1 bege users 0 Oct 23 23:53 file lrwxrwxrwx 1 bege users 4 Oct 23 23:53 file-link -> file Then Armed Bear Common Lisp 0.26.2 Java 1.6.0_26 Sun Microsystems Inc. Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM Low-level initialization completed in 1.436 seconds. Startup completed in 5.385 seconds. Type ":help" for a list of available commands. CL-USER(1): *(directory "./*" :resolve-symlinks nil)* (#P"/home/bege/TEST/./file" *#P"/home/bege/TEST/dir/"*#P"/home/bege/TEST/./file-link" *#P"/home/bege/TEST/dir/"*) Sorry, if this has been already fixed... Best, `bg`

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Re: [armedbear-devel] destroy-thread and unwind-protect
by Mark Evenson 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

On Oct 24, 2011, at 17:59 , James Lawrence wrote: […] > Thanks for the response. > > That seems like a different issue. The purpose is not to guarantee > that the thread is destroyed. > > The behavior sought is: when the protected form stops executing, run > the cleanup forms. […] > In my case I am only interested in detecting the termination of a > thread without polling. Maybe there is an ABCL-specific way to do > that. THREADS:THREAD-ALIVE-P Function: Boolean predicate whether THREAD is alive.

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[armedbear-devel] asdf and windows vs unix on abcl
by Faré 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

ABCL is special in that it can run on either Windows or Unix. The problem is that ASDF 2.017 determines which of Windows or Unix at compile-time, which causes confusion when ABCL's builtin ASDF is compiled on Windows and used on Unix or vice-versa. And I can tell your binary was definitely produced on Windows. (I found this issue while testing cl-launch. I also noticed that you fixed your ext:*command-line-argument-list* albeit in a necessarily incompatible way.) I suppose the solution is that the test of unixness vs windowsness should happen at runtime. Crazy. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org

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[armedbear-devel] Minor doc patch for table of contents
by Ville Voutilainen 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

The basic TOC should be simple. It seems that pdflatex automagically makes the TOC entries to be hyperlinks, so this should be a relative no-brainer? We can use a more elaborate toc-package later if need be. I haven't pushed this in yet, because the manual is sort-of-Mark's turf, so I'm getting my feet wet before committing directly. ;)

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Re: [armedbear-devel] ABCL manual, PDF with suggestions
by Mark Evenson 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

On Oct 21, 2011, at 08:34 , Philipp Marek wrote: > Hello Mark, > > here's the ABCL manual with a few ;) annotations. > > Please take them with a grain of salt, yadda yadda yadda. Thanks a lot! There's a lot of detailed work that you point out that I didn't get a chance to finish, but I tried to incorporate your large-scale criticism in [the abcl-20111021a release of the Armed Bear Common Lisp User Manual][1]. The [LaTex sources to the manual][2] are on the abcl 1.0.x branch for which diffs are solicited. [1]: http://abcl-dynamic-install.googlecode.com/files/abcl-20111021a.pdf [2]: http://svn.common-lisp.net/armedbear/branches/1.0.x/abcl/doc/manual/abcl.tex

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[armedbear-devel] abcl-1.0.x branched. Please test.
by Mark Evenson 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

In preparation for the release of ABCL-1.0.0 on October 22, 2011 I have [created the 1.0.x branch][1]. It seems to do pleasantly well under Java 7, so I have removed the compile time warning. [1]: svn://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/svn/branches/1.0.x/abcl

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[armedbear-devel] closure-html compiling again (was Re: SVN r13600 breaks clean trunk Build)
by Mark Evenson 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

On Sep 20, 2011, at 15:51 , Erik Huelsmann wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Mark Evenson <evenson.not.org(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2011, at 10:34 , ehuels(a)gmail.com wrote: > > > Hi Mark, > > > > You fixed it already, I see. Sorry about the breakage. Which library fails next? :-) > > > > Unfortunately, I'm having problems compiling closure-common (closure-common-20101107-git), upon which closure-html depends: > With the abcl-1.0.x branch, closure-html from Quicklisp is compiling again.

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[armedbear-devel] packaging of abcl 0.27.0
by Ljungberg, Magnus - 0661 - MITLL 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

In the past you've published abcl as a maven artifact over at sonatype.org, something I benefit from daily for my project. Can you please continue that for new releases? Thanks Magnus Ljungberg

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