Re: [Axiom-developer] Broken hypertex

[Waldek Hebisch]

> Le samedi 14 octobre 2006 ? 03:09 +0200, Waldek Hebisch a écrit :
> > Investigating further I have noticed that gcl-2.6.8pre2 in silver is 
> > different then gcl-2.6.8pre in build improvements.  In particular
> > the function object_to_string in gcl-2.6.8pre2/o/cmpaux.c is like
> > gcl-2.6.7 while the version in gcl-2.6.8pre is different.
> 
> Exactly, a typo (& instead of %), no ? I think Camm read this mailing
> list but writing directly to him would be a good idea.
> 

To summarize: both gcl-2.6.7 and gcl-2.6.8pre2 pass address of actual
data (which is what Axiom expects), gcl-2.6.8pre in build-improvements
copies strings and passes address of the copy (which breaks hypertex
interface).  When I change object_to_string in gcl-2.6.8pre to match
that of gcl-2.6.7 (or gcl-2.6.8pre2) hypertex works.

Since gcl-2.6.8pre2 seem to be latest gcl version Camm can probably
just do nothing (just remember so that problem is not re-introduced
later).

Concerning build-improvements: I can use gcl-2.6.7 when testing hypertex.

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                              Waldek Hebisch
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