() l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) () Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:26:49 +0100 Which platform & compiler?
$ uname -a Linux ambire 2.6.18-6-k7 #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 16:59:00 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) Inspection shows that (at least, as of commit 69f90b0b0): overflow = read_token (port, buffer, READER_CHAR_NAME_MAX_SIZE, &bytes_read); if (overflow) goto char_error; ... char_error: scm_i_input_error (FUNC_NAME, port, "unknown character name ~a", scm_list_1 (charname)); if there is an overflow condition, `scm_i_input_error' is called with `charname' not yet initialized. This is in `scm_read_character', which differs from the function indicated in the warning message. I think the fix would be to do: if (overflow) scm_i_input_error (FUNC_NAME, port, "character overflow error", SCM_EOL); or somesuch. GNU/Linux builds at http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/guile-master/all are done with ‘-Werror’ on GCC 4.4.3 and they don’t have this problem. Yeah, i'm still clinging onto personal happiness on Debian Etch. It's high time for a dist-upgrade, but then again, look at all the interesting bugs we find on the trailing edge! :-D thi