[slime-devel] Re: strange failure with the sbcl backend

[Christophe Rhodes]

Andreas Fuchs <asf at boinkor.net> writes:

> I'm not sure which is to blame: me, sbcl or swank. It also seems like
> I'm the only person for whom this is failing. On my machine, I can
> reproduce this with a clean slime, fresh sbcl (no .sbclrc), while
> running emacs -q; so it must be my karma or something (-:

Blame SBCL.  This turned out to be a consequence of class redefinition
signalling a (spurious) warning, which swank was of course catching and
attempting to propagate to emacs.  This would only be a problem during
the redefinition of the slime-output-stream class, when there is a
window where the accessor method has been removed and not yet
reinstated... no-one else is seeing this because I only committed the
change that had this as a side-effect a couple of days ago.

I have committed a fix for this to sbcl's CVS; those of you on
anonymous access might be lucky enough to leapfrog the bug completely,
when sourceforge deigns to update their now six-day-old backup
repository. :-/

Cheers,

Christophe
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