Those don't fail, but: UFFI-TESTS> (let ((native-string "test string")) (uffi:with-foreign-string (fs native-string) (ensure-char-character (deref-pointer fs :char)))) #\t UFFI-TESTS> (let ((native-string "test string")) (uffi:with-foreign-string (fs native-string) (deref-pointer fs :char))) 116 The latter would return #\t in uffi-compat. Em 22 de agosto de 2010 18:25, Luís Oliveira <luismbo@gmail.com> escreveu: 2010/8/10 Gustavo <gugamilare@gmail.com>:

...

I found one inconsistency in uffi's documentation. Uffi's doc says that dereferencing types :char and :unsigned-char return characters where actually it returns integers (at least here).

Does that mean these tests fail for you? <http://git.b9.com/?p=uffi.git;a=blob;f=tests/objects.lisp>

-- Luís Oliveira http://r42.eu/~luis/ <http://r42.eu/%7Eluis/>