[slime-devel] CLISP support broken in CVS

[Bill_Clementson at peoplesoft.com]

Attached is a patch that Helmut Eller made to CLISP to correct format
string functionality.

Thanks Helmut for the fix!

- Bill

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                      "Helmut Eller"                                                                                                          
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Bill_Clementson at peoplesoft.com writes:

> FYI - CLISP 2.33 support seems to be broken in CVS. Here's the contents
of
> the *inferior-lisp* buffer when I attempt to load CLISP:
[snip]
> Current point in control string:
>   Value: ~D = #x~X = #o~O = #b~:,,' ,8B = ~E
>                                 |
> Break 1 SWANK[2]>

I think this control string is legal and CLISP is broken.

I added a IMO fixed version of CLISP's format string parser to
swank-clisp.lisp.  The patch against the CLISP source file is attached
below, in case somebody has the motivation to report the bug to the
CLISP developers.

Helmut

(See attached file: format.lisp.patch)
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