Re: Loading database from string (C API)

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 03:24:31PM +0100, Jan Wielemaker wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 02:37 PM, Edd Barrett wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:34:18PM +0100, Jan Wielemaker wrote:
> >>It is a bug in PL_term_type().  This function is not very popular and
> >>(thus) poorly maintained.  Stream handles are `blobs'.  Blob is SWI-Prolog's
> >>internal super-type for shared symbols.  Atoms are
> >>just a sub-type thereof.  Some examples:
> >>
> >>I'll fix PL_term_type()
> >
> >Ah ha!
> >
> >Can you link me to the diff after? Thanks.
> 
> Pushed.  See
> 
> http://www.swi-prolog.org/git/pl-devel.git/commit/a93cf7b973675026fbaf5fe1cdb0008bdcb9a549
> 
> This will not be back ported to 6.6.x.  I'd rely on other tests
> if you want to know more than the basic classification PL_term_type()
> gives you in the old versions.

Thanks Jan.

Unfortunately I am using the version 6.6.0.

Can you point in the direction of these other tests? I don't see
anything relating to blobs here:
http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=foreign-term-analysis

-- 
Best Regards
Edd Barrett

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