bug#18592: FFI should have portable access to ‘errno’

2014-11-11 Thread Frank Terbeck
Mark H. Weaver wrote: > Frank Terbeck writes: [...] >> Mark Weaver on IRC thought it would be a good idea to add portable >> access to the contents of ‘errno’ (however it's actually implemented) to >> Guile's FFI. And now the idea has entered the bug tracker. :) >

bug#18592: FFI should have portable access to ‘errno’

2014-09-30 Thread Frank Terbeck
Hello Guile Maintainers! When accessing POSIX functions from a system's libc via Guile's dynamic FFI, you commonly want to access the ‘errno’ variable to be able to produce useful diagnostic messages. Currently there's no such access built-in. Mark Weaver on IRC thought it would be a good idea t

bug#18299: Analyzer issues warning with ~:p expansion of ‘format’

2014-08-20 Thread Frank Terbeck
Hello Guile developers, I was trying this: (use-modules (ice-9 format)) (format #t "~d block~:p~%" 1) ;; and 0, and 2 etc... This triggers a warning about the format-string argument count: ;;; :3:0: warning: "~d block~:p~%": wrong number of `format' arguments: expected 2, got 1

Parts of the test-suite hanging forever

2011-06-14 Thread Frank Terbeck
Hi there, I'm running a build of 6fc3eae477 on debian stable: % gcc --version gcc (Debian 4.4.5-8) 4.4.5 % /lib/libc.so.6 GNU C Library (Debian EGLIBC 2.11.2-10) stable release version 2.11.2, by Roland McGrath et al. Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see