[armedbear-devel] Your NAMED-READTABLES test

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Erik Huelsmann writes:

> Hi Tobias,
>
> The named-readtables test you sent me, does show an obvious bug in
> ABCL, but not the one you're trying to point me at: when loading your
> files on Windows, I'm getting an Index out of bounds error: the
> dispatch tables think our characters range from 0 - 255 in value
> whereas in practice that number is much higher.
>
> I'm working on a fix right now (setting CHAR_MAX to a higher value)
> but I don't feel too comfortable with it: it'll make us consume much
> more memory on a number of things. However, what's a K of memory worth
> these days... ?

I haven't read through ABCL's reader sources, but the dispatch tables
(as well as unicode macro characters) should be maintained lazily,
probably in some sort of associative map.

  -T.