[slime-devel] Slime and ECL

[Matthew Mondor]

Hello,

I was unsure to which of the lists this belonged best so I posted it to
both slime-devel and ecls-list (if I understand, swank which is part of
slime handles the implementation-specifics)...

Is slime known to be broken with ECL?

I initially tried with ECL 8.12.0 and first had an unknown utf8-unix
external format error (so I adapted my ~/.emacs to temporarily not use
utf-8 mode, which helped).

Then there was another error related to missing
ext:+ecl-version-number+ constant (which I could declare in ~/.eclrc,
which also helped).

However, there then was another error:
"Wrong number of arguments passed to function #<compiled-function SI:IHS-TOP>".

I then tried using ECL 9.6.0 (or .1? the ecl-9.6.0 archive had a
directory named ecl-9.6.1), built with unicode support.  The utf8
related error still occurs when utf8 mode is enabled, the
+ecl-version-number+ constant is already defined this time, yet the
ihs-top function being called with the wrong number of arguments still
occurs.

Backtrace:
  > LAMBDA
  > swank-backend:call-with-debugger-hook
  > swank:swank-debugger-hook
  > lambda
  > swank-backend:call-with-debugger-hook
  > lambda
  > swank::call-with-bindings
  > swank::call-with-connection
  > swank::simple-serve-requests
  > swank::serve-requests
  > swank::serve-connection
  > swank::serve
  > swank::setup-server
  > swank:start-server
  > si:bytecodes [Evaluation of: (progn (load "/home/mmondor/emacs-scripts/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall (read-from-string "swank:start-server") "/tmp/slime.9787" :coding-system "iso-latin-1-unix"))]
  > si:bytecodes [Evaluation of: (si:top-level)]

My experience with slime and ecl is limited, I used to use it with SBCL
only previously.  The reason why my initial tries were with ECL 8.12
was because I got it working properly with threads, when the bootstrap
ecl_min appears to segfault and its signal handler stuck in an endless
loop when I try to build 9.6.0/1 with threading support (it builds fine
non-threaded).  But this is another matter which I didn't spend time to
debug yet. :)

Thanks,
-- 
Matt