[Ecls-list] ECL behavior of function-defining macro

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Jeronimo Pellegrini <jpn at aleph0.info> wrote:
> Some recent[0] git update in ECL has changed its behavior in the following
> situation:
>
> (defmacro def (name &key (declare '(optimize (speed 3) (safety 1))))
>  `(defun ,name ()
>     ,(format nil "docstring here")
>     (declare ,declare)
>     10))
> ;; OK, the macro is defined
>
> [0] Some weeks or months ago; I can't tell exactly when.

The "docstring" is being created with type (ARRAY CHARACTER (*)) as
opposed to the base string type (ARRAY BASE-CHAR (*)). That is only
possible when configuring with --enable-unicode (Unix) or
ECL_UNICODE=1 (Windows), but confused the bytecodes compiler. I have
fix this, which obviously was a bug in ECL.

Thanks for reporting!

Juanjo


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