[rucksack-devel] State of the nation and heap patch

[Arthur Lemmens]

Sean Ross wrote:

> I was just wondering if  anyone knows what the current  state of the
> rucksack world is

I had practically no time to work on Rucksack last year.  I hope (and
expect) to have more time for Rucksack this year, but I can't make any
promises of course.

> I am quite keen to use it in a project of mine but am going to need
> some help sorting out some corruption issues that I've run into (code
> to reproduce can be found in corrupt.lisp).

Thanks, I can confirm the problem and I'll look into it.

> I've also attached a small patch to heap.lisp which amends load-buffer
> to use (first (array-dimensions)) rather than length in order to
> ignore the vectors fill-pointer (which was causing large amounts of
> unnecessary arrays to be allocated).

OK, thanks.  I just committed this patch to CVS (as version 0.1.12).

Arthur