[Gcl-devel] Re:

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

This is a fix to the long-standing maxima/gcl bug in which interactive
input was not being correctly prompted for and read.
(read-char-no-hang) used to always return #\Newline.  Now we swallow
trailing whitespace at the point you note.

I have not checked the FCNTL LISTEN_FOR_INPUT alternative in read.d --
does it work, and if not, can a suitable Windows LISTEN_FOR_INPUT be
defined? 

Take care,

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> > Have you any idea why this new error might have recently 
> > crept into the Windows build of both HEAD and 268pre?
> 
> Found it - the following new lines in read.d:
> 
>       while (listen_stream(in)) {
>         object c=read_char(in);
>         if (cat(c)!=cat_whitespace) {
>           unread_char(c,in);
>           break;
>         }
>       }
> 
> One of the places where listen_stream is used in read.d is #ifdefed out
> on the macro LISTEN_FOR_INPUT (defined for Linux but not Windows).
> 
> I wonder whether this might be appropriate in the above case?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
==========================================================================
"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."  --  Baha'u'llah