* Nick Levine <aqy-YuQg+Lki2tvVhJE1T4mvbN@choyvp.tznar.bet> [2012-05-23 10:05:10 +0100]:

#+clisp (defun abi-version () (car (system::version)))

is incompatible with

(abi-version &optional object)

thanks. (defun abi-version (&optional (object nil supplied-p)) (if supplied-p (handler-case (progn (system::version (list object)) t) (error (e) nil)) (car (system::version))))

...

It's not at all clear to me from reading CDR document 10 <http://cdr.eurolisp.org/document/10/compiled-file-p.html> what an ABI version is (as in "the argument identifies an ABI version which can be consumed by the implementation"). Further examples of abi-version (in particular, one which shows a possible input or output value rather than just piping the two together) would make this clearer.

in clisp 2.49: (abi-version) ==> 20080430 (abi-version 20080430) ==> T (abi-version "foo") ==> NIL in a hypothetical lisp implementation MyCL v7 with a native compiler: (abi-version) ==> :x86_64-7 ; or, say, 64007. (abi-version :x86_64-7) ==> T (abi-version :x86_64-6) ==> T ; if files compiled by v6 are acceptable for v7 (abi-version :x86_64-8) ==> NIL ; since forward compatibility cannot be assumed (abi-version :sparc-7) ==> NIL ; since native compilation is usually architecture-dependent (abi-version "bar") ==> NIL (compile-file "foo.lisp" :output-file (make-pathname :directory (list (lisp-implementation-type) (princ-to-string (abi-version))))) ==> #P"CLISP/20080430/foo.fas" ; or ==> #P"MyCL/x86_64-7/foo.fas" ; or -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) X 11.0.11103000 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://dhimmi.com http://memri.org http://ffii.org http://www.memritv.org http://mideasttruth.com Lottery is a tax on statistics ignorants. MS is a tax on computer-idiots.