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Usage of "PURE" strings
- To: (BUG LISP) at MIT-MC
- Subject: Usage of "PURE" strings
- From: JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 80 01:51:00 GMT
- Cc: NIL-I at MIT-MC
- Original-date: 26 APR 1980 2051-EST
A number of bugs have arisen from trying to PURCOPY string
(either in NILAID, NIL, or in a lisp with only the STRING
package) - here's another to beware of:
If you call PURIFY with first argument signaling a general
clean-up and purification, then the system knows enough to
close out any remaing pure consing areas *** except for the
pure string areas. You must close this out "by hand", by
doing (SETQ STR/:NO/.PWDSF 0). Remember that some "dumpers"
will implicitly call PURIFY thusly; PURE-SUSPEND is one.