Re: :pointer-self and LispWorks

Edi Weitz <[email protected]> 12 Aug 2003 16:22:35 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.uffi.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:06:09 -0600, Kevin Rosenberg <kevin-HJRc7zDS/[email protected]> wrote:

> Edi Weitz wrote:
> > Here the problem seems to be that you have to use
> >   (uffi:def-struct foo2 (bar foo-ptr2))
> > and not
> >   (uffi:def-struct foo2 (bar :foo-ptr2))
> 
> Thanks fixes it for Lispworks, but Allegro still doesn't like it
> because of the forward reference.

Yes, but the forward reference was just a workaround (it also didn't
work with CMUCL). With the patch I don't think we don't need to care.

> BTW, your patch seems fine and I'll release a new version of UFFI
> soon with it.

Good, thanks.

Have you had a chance to look into the "pointer coercion" issue I
asked about?

Cheers,
Edi.