Hello folks,
I am currently running into two problems with Allegro CL on Solaris,
unfortunately without having a support contract[1]. I wonder what to do
in that situation -- can anybody tell me about their experience with
Franz, Inc. in such a situation?
Just in case that somebody has encountered the same bugs as me, could
you tell me what you've done about it?
JFTR: In Allegro 4.3/Solaris 2.6 file-names get truncated when using
`directory'. So, having a file "file1.txt" in a directory, I get
(#"/home/schauer/tmp/le1.txt")
I installed all patches I could find from ftp.franz.com, to no avail.
In Allegro 5.0.1/Solaris 2.6, `adjust-array' sometimes doesn't honour
:initialize-element on all elements. In the particular example, I have
in mind, I'm expanding a vector by about 100 elements initialzed to
zero and end up with the first three values set to random (and very
large) fixnums. As I can't reliably reproduce the problem (i.e.
calling adjust-array in the REPL usually returns correct results), I
was assuming a problem in my code, but am unable to reproduce the
problem at all with either ACL 5.0.1/Linux or CMUCL. Installing
patches via (sys:update-allegro) again did not help at all.
Holger
Footnotes:
[1] We used to have support for both versions, but due to financial
constraints were unable to enlarge the contracts.
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From: Kenny Tilton
Subject: Re: What do with bugs in commercial lisps (ACL) without support?
Date:
Message-ID: <3C42F6B4.B44F69EB@nyc.rr.com>
Don't quote me on this and I sure as hell can't speak for Franz, but I
have a deep recollect of something about Franz always welcoming bug
reports. Maybe send it in with a clear disclaimer that you thought
they'd like to know and that you are not asking for support in the sense
of help.
kenny
clinisys
Holger Schauer wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
> I am currently running into two problems with Allegro CL on Solaris,
> unfortunately without having a support contract[1]. I wonder what to do
> in that situation -- can anybody tell me about their experience with
> Franz, Inc. in such a situation?