Re: [Axiom-developer] Broken hypertex

[Vanuxem Grégory]

Le samedi 14 octobre 2006 à 17:47 +0200, Waldek Hebisch a écrit :
> > 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).

No, GCL included in build-improvements is more recent than
gcl-2.6.8pre2. The code that you describe is in gcl-2.6.8pre just
checked out today and in gcl-2.7 (cvs HEAD).

Greg