Liam,

I am not trying to bludgeon this issue to death nor convince the you that I am right and you are wrong.

In a nutshell, I started on this path because of exception errors when trying to load GSLL on Windows (SBCL or CCL) using GSL compiled MinGW64. I traced this to the initialization of the permutation structures and the size of the requested memory (see recent post on CFFI mailing list).

I decided to rewrite a small part of permutation.lisp to use GSL's code to directly initialize and query permutation structure. The attached patch contains the rewrite and some minor edits. All the permutation and qrpt tests pass.

The patch should be considered a proof-of-concept (or failure of concept).

For me, this patch has cleared the exception errors that have started me on this trek. Even if it is not accepted, I learned something, and it was fun. And I can keep it on my GSLL so that it runs for me.

Best,

Mirko

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Liam Healy lhealy@common-lisp.net wrote:

Added thought: you can lookup any GSL (C) function to find the CL equivalent by using gsl-lookup. So for example

(gsl:gsl-lookup "gsl_permute_vector") PERMUTE T

tells you #'permute is the function you want. If there is no equivalent (there are some C functions with no interface in CL), you will get NIL as the return value of this function.

Liam

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Mirko Vukovic mirko.vukovic@gmail.com wrote:

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Thanks for the explanations - I missed the :generic and :method

specifiers.

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I'll study the macro-expansions.

Sorry for the noise.

Mirko

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Liam Healy lhealy@common-lisp.net

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The original code looks right to me.

You have taken the generic function and the associated foreign vector methods #'permute and gratuitously renamed them #'permute-vector, leaving the method for raw C pointer with the original name and no generic function. Then you completely delete the generic function and vector methods for #'permute-inverse for no apparent reason, leaving a method for the raw C pointer only.

There is no duplicated code here. There is certainly the equivalent of gsl_permute_vector, it is the GRID:VECTOR-DOUBLE-FLOAT (second arg) method of #'permute (which you renamed).

I recommend macroexpansion as a way of seeing what's being defined. If you use emacs, place the cursor on the defmfun line and do C-c C-m. Then you will see all the generic functions and methods, and you will see there is no error in the original code.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic@gmail.com

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Because of a typo, GSLL did not have the equivalent of GSL_PERMUTE_VECTOR.

There was also a section of duplicated code.

This patch should fix these errors.

NOTE: I did not test this patch - My GSLL system is not behaving super-cleanly on MSYS2 and GSL2.1. Proceed with care.

Mirko