[slime-devel] Problem compiling functions longer than around 4093 characters?

[Fred Gilham]

Hello,

I was trying to compile a function interactively (i.e. with ^C^C).
It's a relatively long function.  When I did it under slime, I got the
following:

* 
;; Connection to Emacs lost.
;; [
Error in function LISP::ASSERT-ERROR:  Short read: length=4191  pos=4093]


The function uses XLIB and I shortened it by "using" XLIB and changing
the xlib:<foo> calls to just <foo> calls.  It then compiled without
error.

So I looked around and found another piece of code with a long
function.  It is over 10000 characters.  The same thing happened:

* ;; Connection to Emacs lost.
;; [
Error in function LISP::ASSERT-ERROR:  Short read: length=13988  pos=4093]


The error occurs in read-next-form in swank.lisp.

Looks like the code isn't handling the transfer of more than one
pipe-buffer-full of data.

I'm using a very recent slime.

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Fred Gilham                                         gilham at csl.sri.com
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