[elephant-devel] cmucl problems in memutil.lisp

[GP lisper]

in elephant 0.9 with cmucl snapshot from September 08, I find:

CL-USER> (load "library:subsystems/berkeley-db")
T
CL-USER> (require :elephant)
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/elephant.asd".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/cl-base64-3.3.2/cl-base64.asd".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/uffi.asd".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/package.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/primitives.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/objects.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/aggregates.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/functions.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/strings.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/libraries.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/os.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/cl-base64-3.3.2/package.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/cl-base64-3.3.2/encode.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/cl-base64-3.3.2/decode.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/src/utils/package.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/src/utils/convenience.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/src/utils/locks.x86f".
; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/src/utils/os.x86f".
Attempting to load libmemutil.so...
; Compiling: CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/src/memutil/memutil.lisp 28 APR 07 07:10:55 pm
...
; Compiling DEFUN RETURN-BUFFER-STREAM: 
; Converted WITH-BUFFER-STREAMS.
; Compiling DEFMACRO WITH-BUFFER-STREAMS: 


Error in function ALIEN::%PARSE-ALIEN-TYPE:  Unknown alien type: UNSIGNED-CHAR


I'm not familiar enough with Alien to track this down.  Perhaps CMUCL
is not as supported as in the past?

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