Subject: [SWIPL] include problem?

From: Sebastian Sardina <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:07:36 -0400

is there any "new" problem with include/1 in the new 4 version?

when I consult a program that uses include/1 like

:-include(file).

it gives me a weird and "infinite" error. The same file works with the 3.4
version. The error is as follows:

Domain error: `stream_or_alias' expected, found `[ ..........

thanks

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Jan Wielemaker wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> With help from Vladimir Linek and Andreas Schwab from the SuSE team I
> was able to fix a large number of portability-issues especially for
> 64-bit hardware.  Compilation and testing was done on Intel Itanium
> (Merced) at SuSE running Linux.
> 
> Besides portability issues, there are only a few fixes to the
> multi-threaded version and XPCE's socket class and HTTP manual server.
> Therefore there are no binary releases this time!
> 
> Brief summary of portability patches:
> 
> 	* Data representation problem causing problems in padding
> 	  native SWI-Prolog string data.  Causing incorrect results
> 	  and crashes when using XPCE.
> 
> 	* Raised hard-limit to 1GB on each stack (on 64-bit hardware).
> 	  (this limit is rather arbitrary).
> 
> 	* Problems in PL_unify_term() with difference in length
> 	  between `int' and `long'.  See manual.  This also affects
> 	  user foreign code that must be portable to these platforms.
> 	  Various modification to the standard packages to deal with
> 	  this.
> 
> 	* Make all stack-size related numbers a multiple of the word-size,
> 	  so they behave the same regardless of the word-size.
> 
> 	* Deal more elegantly with setjmp()/longjmp() alignment issues.
> 
> 	* Fixed many (non-fatal) compiler warnings.
> 
> 	* [XPCE] close pointer-vararg argument with a pointer rather than
> 	  an int.
> 
> 	Cheers --- Jan
> 
> 
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