[Chicken-users] [Proposal] Officially drop SWIG support?

2015-06-14 Thread Peter Bex
Hello everyone, I was browsing our code a bit and noticed that we have a special swig pointer type. However, there seems no way to construct it from Scheme and as far as I remember, SWIG support has bitrotted to the point of being useless. This is also mentioned in the manual at

Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-announce] CHICKEN 4.10.0 release candidate 1 available

2015-06-14 Thread Peter Bex
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 09:59:27PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote: Operating system: Debian 8.1 Hardware platform: Powerpc (32 bits, iBook G4) C Compiler: Clang 3.5.0-10 Installation works?: yes Tests work?: no Installation of eggs works?: no The clang build segfaults on the very first test, and

Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-announce] CHICKEN 4.10.0 release candidate 1 available

2015-06-14 Thread Peter Bex
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 04:48:58PM +0200, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: That's interesting. I just succeeded to build chicken (both the 4.9.1 and my local deviations) with gcc 4.9.2 and clang 3.5.0 on both amd64 and armhf. Clang works fine on i386 and amd64 for me, as well. It's just on

Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-announce] CHICKEN 4.10.0 release candidate 1 available

2015-06-14 Thread John Cowan
Peter Bex scripsit: I tried digging in, but I hit a wall as soon as I tried gdb on a basic csi session: it fails right at the start, in C_toplevel: it looks like the toplevel_trampoline argument it passes to C_reclaim (a function pointer) already gets mangled. This might be a problem with

Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-hackers] [Proposal] Officially drop SWIG support?

2015-06-14 Thread Arthur Maciel
2015-06-14 10:53 GMT-03:00 Peter Bex pe...@more-magic.net: (...) So what do you all think? Should we drop SWIG support for CHICKEN 5? Is anyone still using SWIG? IMHO we should drop SWIG support for CHICKEN 5. As you've shown it clearly doesn't work anymore and I think CHICKEN 5 code