Re: [Gcl-devel] read-char-no-hang

[Peter Wood]

My version of GCL is 2.5.0.  Last time I tried compiling from CVS I
failed due to my old GCC.  But that was a while ago.  Yeah, sorry -
everything over here is quite old :-) At least this shows that the
problem is a "new" one.

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:05:56AM -0600, James Amundson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 01:19, Peter Wood wrote:
> > On my older GCL, I can get the behaviour you want (including
> > discarding the 'spurious' newline) like this:
> > 
> > (defun foo2 ()
> >   (do ()
> >       ((not (listen)))
> >     (read-char-no-hang))
> >   (foo))
> 
> listen is completely broken for me, too -- it always returns NIL. I just
> verified that GCL 2.6.6 exhibits the same behavior. I used 2.6.5 for my
> previous tests. Which version of GCL do you have?
> 
> --Jim
> 

Regards Peter