[slime-devel] Slime/SBCL/FreeBSD oddities

[Luke Gorrie]

Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker at fast.no> writes:

>         FreeBSD 4.9 Stable, SBCL 0.8.6.21, current SLIME.
> 
>         Hi. I have a Lisp file that has some large forms (a defconst
> for a vector holding 1024 integers, for instance).
> 
>         If I hit C-c C-e over this form, it is evaluated in the
> *inferior-lisp* buffer.
> 
>         If I hit C-c C-c, I get a "broken pipe" error. I've tried
> reducing the size of the vector, and I see this problem down to
> (about) 480 characters. This is just below the "pipesize" limit on my
> box, which is 512.

Are you running SLIME in any exotic way? Who reports the broken pipe,
Emacs or Lisp?

With SBCL "0.8.5.50" from CVS a ways back on Linux I can't reproduce
this, even with e.g. (defconstant foo #(42 ... 42)) with 25KB of
42's. I think I can get SBCL onto a FreeBSD box around here though.

-Luke