Re: patch: don't store literal null pointers in saved images

Kevin Rosenberg <kevin-HJRc7zDS/[email protected]> Tue, 9 May 2006 09:28:47 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clsql.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
James Bielman wrote:
> Here's a better patch that adds a macro for defining pointer variables
> that might need to be initialized, and using an OpenMCL macro to reset
> the bindings when a saved image is loaded.  (It's too bad DEFLOADVAR
> isn't exported, but there's a lot of OpenMCL example code that uses
> it, so I don't feel too guilty about it...)

That is a better patch. I'll commit your patch (or some variant of it)
into the next version of CLSQL.  Appreciated.
  
> I'm guessing here, but I bet it did pass all the tests with other
> database backends.  A few years ago I got Oracle working with OpenMCL

I think that you're right. When I last tested with openmcl, I likely
did not use Oracle at that time.

> If you have an AMD64 box handy, the OpenMCL port in CVS is progressing
> very nicely, and should work for CLSQL testing as well.

I searched for a binary to bootstrap a cvs build of openmcl for
amd64. Do you know where I could find an amd64 openmcl binary?

Thanks again,

Kevin