Daniel Barlow dan@telent.net writes:

Helmut Eller heller@common-lisp.net writes:

...

+(defun read-next-form ()

• (handler-case

•  (let* ((length (logior (ash (read-byte *emacs-io*) 16)
  

• 	     (ash (read-byte *emacs-io*) 8)
  

• 	     (read-byte *emacs-io*)))
  

•     (string (make-string length)))
  

• (sys:read-n-bytes *emacs-io* string 0 length)
• (read-form string))
• (condition (c)

•  (throw 'serve-request-catcher c))))
  

OK, so what is the problem with CMUCL that means it can't use read-sequence here? I know it used to be broken (did partial reads) but I thought that was fixed ages ago. Can we not report this as a bug to the cmucl developers?

I think you can't read bytes and characters from the same stream. If that's a bug, then a proper fix is of course preferable.

--helmut.