Re: [Chicken-users] Re: S11n Egg Problem

[felix winkelmann]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Elf <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> the problem is the procedures starting at lines 146 and 148 in svn head,
> getb and getw.  theyre not checking for eof-object, which would cause this
> behaviour.  fetch isnt checking either, but it needs to be at getb level,
> cause char->integer against eof-object isnt so good.  the weird question is
> why is this not failing at the char->integer ?

Probably because the compiler replaces some operations with not-so-safe
internal code. Historically, some primitives consider safety as "not crashing",
something that wasn't such a great idea. I'll check this later (really!).


cheers,
felix