[CM] Re: cannot run cm script on Linux SBCL

[Immanuel Litzroth]

"Christophe Rhodes" <csr21@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> </lurk>
>
> Immanuel Litzroth <immanuell@enfocus.be> writes:
>
>> "Rick Taube" <taube@uiuc.edu> writes:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Or: how do you know if a given sbcl has callbacks?
>>>
>>> this is a good question. I havent tried to build sbcl from sources and
>>> so i dont know if callbacks are in 0.9.2. 
>>
>> sbcl 9.3 has the callback code (in code/target-alieneval.lisp). It
>> does say in one place  
>>>    ;;;; See "Foreign Linkage / Callbacks" in the SBCL Internals manual.
>>
>> and a little bit further
>>  >   ;;;; interface (not public, yet) for alien callbacks
>>
>> The manual doesn't mention callbacks. I tried to get it to work
>> yesterday for 30 min. but I gave up.
>
> As I understand it -- and bear in mind that despite my position in
> sbcl development, I don't understand it all that well -- the
> infrastructure for callbacks is present on x86 and ppc/Darwin
> platforms; there is discussion of the implementation details in the
> Internals Manual (as distinct from the User Manual), and that there
> isn't (yet) a finalized public interface interface.
>
> The file tests/callback.impure.lisp in the SBCL source distribution
> demonstrates the current status of the callback implementation (on
> those platforms on which it is supported at all): there are tests for
> the usual qsort call, and that floats and doubles get passed correctly
>>From one end to the other.
>
> Nikodemus Siivola, who has been driving this development direction, is
> at present on holiday, so things may not move terribly fast until he
> returns.
>
> <lurk>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christophe
Any idea where I can get a version of this internals manual? I've been doing 
a lot of sbcl development lately, and I would like to take a look at this. 
Thanks
Immanuel