[Cl-perec-devel] [patch] check whether e-s-d type is serializable

[Stanislaw Halik]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008, Levente Mészáros wrote:
>> After evaluating the following code:

>>  (defpclass* test-foo ()
>>    ((slot-1 :type fixnum)))

>> the image becomes unusable. MAKE-INSTANCE on any class complains about
>> the type even if the class gets purged through #'(setf find-class).

>> Made a patch chat checks SLOT-DEFINITION-TYPE for
>> PERSISTENT-DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION by calling UNIT-TYPE-P, thus avoiding
>> botching the image.

> Thanks for reporting this bug but I'm not sure this is the correct way
> to fix it.

> I pushed a different one which patches unit-type-p and should allow
> using fixnum as a slot type.

With the diff applied, using unsupported types (pathname, random-state
etc) doesn't break the image anymore. Thanks!

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