Hi Eugene, On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:23:20 -0400, Eugene Ossintsev <eugoss@gmail.com> wrote:

I was trying to compile flexi-streams 1.0.3 with CMUCL 19e and it stopped with the following message in ascii.lisp :

-------------------------------------------------------- Type-error in KERNEL::OBJECT-NOT-TYPE-ERROR-HANDLER: 65533 is not of type (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) [Condition of type TYPE-ERROR] --------------------------------------------------------

I don't know if it's my fault or not, I'm not experienced enough yet. But as I see, in MAKE-DECODING-TABLE the function MAKE-ARRAY has :element-type 'char-code-integer.

CHAR-CODE-INTEGER is defined as

(deftype char-code-integer () "The subtype of integers which can be returned by the function CHAR-CODE." '(integer 0 #.(1- char-code-limit)))

But at least in CMUCL 19e CHAR-CODE-LIMIT is 256, that is not enough to hold 65533. I'm afraid it's about Unicode-non-Unicode characters, right?

Please send but reports to the mailing list (see Cc). I'm not sure what the best thing to do is w.r.t. CMUCL. Should we declare CHAR-CODE-INTEGER to be the same as FIXNUM on CMUCL? Or (integer 0 65535)? Or should at least MAKE-DECODING-TABLE be modified? Opinions? Cheers, Edi. PS: Eugene, as a workaround please try the following in mapping.lisp and report to the list if you still have problems: (defun make-decoding-table (list) "Creates and returns an array which contains the elements in the list LIST and has an element type that's suitable for character codes." (make-array (length list) :element-type 'fixnum :initial-contents list))