[Ecls-list] BUG: SEGMENTATION-VIOLATION in code with DEFTYPE unicode char

[Eric Marsden]

>>>>> "jgr" == Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> writes:

  jgr> Here is the problem: "char" in Linux is "signed char", while in OS X it
  jgr> seems to default to "unsigned char". I have changed ECL so that BASE-CHAR
  jgr> objects are unboxed using the explicit C type "unsigned char" to avoid such
  jgr> ambiguities. ASA I get to a non-firewalled computer I will upload the fix.

  Thanks for the fix. Here is another bug which is possibly related
  (still on Linux/AMD64). 

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| ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 11.1.1 (git:78442fa7bcb4ef486b704e16d0e7cefbd4bf7680)
| Top level.
| > (lambda (a) (declare (type (eql "b") a)) (eql "b" a))
| #<bytecompiled-closure #<bytecompiled-function 0000000003cc6e10>>
| > (compile nil *)
| ;;; OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=0, Speed=3, Debug=0
| ;;;
| ;;; End of Pass 1.
| #<compiled-function 0000000003fc6980>
| NIL
| NIL
| > (funcall * "b")
| Condition of type: TYPE-ERROR
| "b" is not of type (EQL "b").
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Eric Marsden