Re: [Chicken-users] Postscript: (Reading binary files)

[John Cowan]

Siegfried Gonzi scripsit:

> I think I have chicken 64 bit now on my mac os x leopard. Now lets
> see how stable it is on my binar files. BUT: silly question: is this
> normal behavior among the chicken compiler that it spots errors at
> first at runtime? I bluntly copied some matrix benchmarks over from
> my old Bigloo (btw. cannot install it on Leopard ayone here who has
> Bigloo on Leopard please drop me a note) and leaved fx*, fx+ operators
> in the code. However, the chicken compiler did not complain and produced
> foo.out but complaint at runtime.

The Chicken compiler assumes that undefined names will be defined in the
interpreter, in the library, or in other compiled code, so it does not
complain about them.

In any case, Chicken provides fx+ and fx*, so the problem must have
been something else.

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