[Ecls-list] SBCL Sockets in ecl will not take string as buffer?

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Peter Enerccio <enerccio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, I am trying to use SB-BSD-SOCKETS in ecl, however, since there is
> no documentation about that, I am using documentation on SBCL webpage
> (which is supposed to be the same for sockets), however, SOCKET-SEND
> according to help on sbcl webpage can accept string as buffer, however,
> this method is failing for me in ecl:


Most likely this is due to the fact that the string is not a base-string,
but a unicode-string. In that circumstance the C routine cannot cope with
the buffer pointer and the FFI refuses to perform the appropriate C call.

I am not sure how to proceed on this.

Juanjo

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