Re: [Chicken-hackers] ##sys#delq

[felix . winkelmann]

> On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 10:50:14AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm currently testing Jörg's srif-18 patch with chicken-5 and found that 
> > ##sys#delq is not
> > available anymore. Is there any replacement provided by core that can be 
> > used?
>
> That definition has been un-prefixed in scheduler.scm, and it's hidden.
> I think the best thing to do would be to just copy the definition into
> the srfi-18 egg.  If this is intended to be a public API (which could be
> useful, I think), we could also move it into library.scm and export it
> from a module.

Very good - thanks for clearing that up. I guess, I'll include the definition, 
since this needs
to be fast.

>
> > It seems that srfi-18 wasn't tested for quite a while, it may be a good 
> > idea to test the few
> > chicken-5 eggs that we have from time to time when making changes to the 5 
> > core.
>
> It is tested daily on the Salmonella boxes and it hasn't broken down
> so far.  See for example these most recent runs:
> http://salmonella-freebsd-x86-64.call-cc.org/chicken-5/clang/freebsd/x86-64/2016/02/06/salmonella-report/
> http://salmonella-linux-x86-64.call-cc.org/chicken-5/gcc/linux/x86-64/2016/02/05/salmonella-report/
>
> AFAICT this means that the egg's tests are woefully incomplete,
> considering ##sys#delq is used quite a bit in srfi-18.scm.

Indeed. I didn't know we already have a salmonella for C5, good to know.


felix