[slime-devel] *BUFFER-OFFSET* problem on SBCL

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Christian Lynbech <christian at defun.dk> writes:

> The newly introduced *BUFFER-OFFSET* is not defined on SBCL.
>
> The problem is that swank-sbcl contains this:
>
>         (defvar *buffer-offset*)
>
> but it must look like this
>
>         (defvar *buffer-offset* nil)
>
> to actually introduce a variable.
>
> It is a little unclear to me exactly when the problem manifests
> itself. I have sofar only seen it in combination with compilation of
> systems in which a file had a superflous parenthesis.

The actual problem was something else. Fixed in CVS. Thanks for
reporting this!,

  -T.