Hello Camm, *,
That's excellent, that's exactly what I was looking for. Data types and the
GCL FFI access to a shared library. I have to look deeper since I load
libjulia.so and initialize Julia the first time I use it. And only one time
the library loading:
(defun init-julia (wrapper-lib)
(if (ignore-errors (|quiet_load_alien| wrapper-lib) t)
(let ((system-julia-name #+:WIN32 "libjulia.dll"
#+:DARWIN "libjulia.dylib"
#-(or :WIN32 :DARWIN) "libjulia.so")
(bundled-julia-name #+:WIN32 "/lib/libjulia.dll"
#+:DARWIN "/lib/libjulia.dylib"
#-(or :WIN32 :DARWIN) "/lib/libjulia.so"))
(if (ignore-errors (|quiet_load_alien| system-julia-name) t)
t
(and bundled-julia-name (ignore-errors (|quiet_load_alien|
(BOOT::make-absolute-filename bundled-julia-name)) t
))))))
After loading the library, the C code call Julia for its initialization,
the GC and several other stuff.
I think mimicking the libspad.so support will be a good start.
However, I noticed that about utf-8 support:
In SBCL or Clozure CL, the later needs a special routine to handle utf-8
string returned from the C wrapper:
(1) -> #"Hello world, Καλημέρα κόσμε, コンニチハ"
(1) 34
Whereas in gcl27, 2.7.1-7 (the Debian sid package):
(2) -> #"Hello world, Καλημέρα κόσμε, コンニチハ"
(2) 59
# is the operation that returns the number of elements in an Aggregate.
So I think handling strings returned by Julia, I use them sometimes for
formatting purposes or regular expressions related operation principally,
will probably become difficult with gcl27, they are in utf-8. For BLAS and
LAPACK and purely numerical functions I don't think it will it be a problem
but for returned strings (char *) I wonder if there is a special function
to let GCL "knows" it is in utf-8 and handle them correctly.
BTW many many thanks, it's a good headway for me, it will prevent me a lot
of digging in the GCL internals.
- Greg
PS: attached is a file I regularly use to check utf-8 support.
Le jeu. 29 mai 2025, 22:28, Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> a écrit :
> Greetings, and thanks again!
>
> From my reading of the spec GCL's parsing of the pathname-type is
> compliant. It also passes Paul Dietz' test suite. If this is causing
> difficulties it would be great if someone could post the failing lisp
> code.
>
> There are advantages to not allowing '.' in pathname-name.
>
> Take care,
>
> Grégory Vanuxem <g.vanu...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Le sam. 24 mai 2025, 18:41, Waldek Hebisch <de...@fricas.org> a écrit :
> >
> > On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 06:14:40PM +0200, Grégory Vanuxem wrote:
> > > Hi Waldek,
> > >
> > > Many thanks for this quick response and fix. Just tested on official
> FriCAS
> > > and the 2 problems you mentioned previously gone away.
> > >
> > > The .fricas.input file is still not "read" but for my mid-term work
> it is
> > > not a big problem, my startup file is just displaying computation
> times and
> > > augmenting line length of output to 110. Maybe this is related to my
> Kali
> > > distribution on WSL2, I don't know.
> > >
> > > The )read command is to blame on my settings:
> > >
> > > (1) -> )sys pws
> > >
> > > >> System error:
> > > INTERNAL-SIMPLE-ERROR: The assertion !posix_spawnp(&pid, *p1,
> > > &file_actions, &attr, (void *)p1, environ) on line 65 of o/unixsys.c
> in
> > > function vsystem failed: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > (1) -> )sys pwd
> > > /home/greg
> > > (1) -> )sys ls -l .fricas.input
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 35 Feb 11 09:42 .fricas.input
> > > (1) -> )read .fricas.input
> > >
> > > The file .fricas.input is needed but does not exist.
> >
> > AFAICS the problem is due to PATHNAME-TYPE in gcl:
> >
> > )lisp (PATHNAME-TYPE "/home/hebisch/.fricas.input")
> >
> > Value = "fricas.input"
> > (1) ->
> >
> > All other Lisp implementations that we use return "input".
> >
> > Yes and this is required by CLHS from what I have read:
> >
> >
> http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec/Body/fun_pathname-_name-version.html#pathname-type
> >
> > It's a good thing to know for Camm since apparently he is working on
> several things and will add some suggestions for macOS from Chun Tian from
> what I have
> > understood so I think it will fix that.
> >
> > - Greg
>
> --
> Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org
> ==========================================================================
> "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
>
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Combining characters:
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The Greek anthem:
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τοῦ σπαθιοῦ τὴν τρομερή,
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ὅταν τ᾿ εἰς τὰ πράγματα ἀποβλέψω καὶ ὅταν πρὸς τοὺς
λόγους οὓς ἀκούω· τοὺς μὲν γὰρ λόγους περὶ τοῦ
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ინტერნაციონალიზაცია და ლოკალიზაცია, Unicode-ის გამოყენება
ოპერაციულ სისტემებსა, და გამოყენებით პროგრამებში, შრიფტებში,
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Интернета и Unicode, локализации и интернационализации, воплощению и
применению Unicode в различных операционных системах и программных
приложениях, шрифтах, верстке и многоязычных компьютерных системах.
Thai (UCS Level 2):
Excerpt from a poetry on The Romance of The Three Kingdoms (a Chinese
classic 'San Gua'):
[----------------------------|------------------------]
๏ แผ่นดินฮั่นเสื่อมโทรมแสนสังเวช พระปกเกศกองบู๊กู้ขึ้นใหม่
สิบสองกษัตริย์ก่อนหน้าแลถัดไป สององค์ไซร้โง่เขลาเบาปัญญา
ทรงนับถือขันทีเป็นที่พึ่ง บ้านเมืองจึงวิปริตเป็นนักหนา
โฮจิ๋นเรียกทัพทั่วหัวเมืองมา หมายจะฆ่ามดชั่วตัวสำคัญ
เหมือนขับไสไล่เสือจากเคหา รับหมาป่าเข้ามาเลยอาสัญ
ฝ่ายอ้องอุ้นยุแยกให้แตกกัน ใช้สาวนั้นเป็นชนวนชื่นชวนใจ
พลันลิฉุยกุยกีกลับก่อเหตุ ช่างอาเพศจริงหนาฟ้าร้องไห้
ต้องรบราฆ่าฟันจนบรรลัย ฤๅหาใครค้ำชูกู้บรรลังก์ ฯ
(The above is a two-column text. If combining characters are handled
correctly, the lines of the second column should be aligned with the
| character above.)
Ethiopian:
Proverbs in the Amharic language:
ሰማይ አይታረስ ንጉሥ አይከሰስ።
ብላ ካለኝ እንደአባቴ በቆመጠኝ።
ጌጥ ያለቤቱ ቁምጥና ነው።
ደሀ በሕልሙ ቅቤ ባይጠጣ ንጣት በገደለው።
የአፍ ወለምታ በቅቤ አይታሽም።
አይጥ በበላ ዳዋ ተመታ።
ሲተረጉሙ ይደረግሙ።
ቀስ በቀስ፥ ዕንቁላል በእግሩ ይሄዳል።
ድር ቢያብር አንበሳ ያስር።
ሰው እንደቤቱ እንጅ እንደ ጉረቤቱ አይተዳደርም።
እግዜር የከፈተውን ጉሮሮ ሳይዘጋው አይድርም።
የጎረቤት ሌባ፥ ቢያዩት ይስቅ ባያዩት ያጠልቅ።
ሥራ ከመፍታት ልጄን ላፋታት።
ዓባይ ማደሪያ የለው፥ ግንድ ይዞ ይዞራል።
የእስላም አገሩ መካ የአሞራ አገሩ ዋርካ።
ተንጋሎ ቢተፉ ተመልሶ ባፉ።
ወዳጅህ ማር ቢሆን ጨርስህ አትላሰው።
እግርህን በፍራሽህ ልክ ዘርጋ።
Runes:
ᚻᛖ ᚳᚹᚫᚦ ᚦᚫᛏ ᚻᛖ ᛒᚢᛞᛖ ᚩᚾ ᚦᚫᛗ ᛚᚪᚾᛞᛖ ᚾᚩᚱᚦᚹᛖᚪᚱᛞᚢᛗ ᚹᛁᚦ ᚦᚪ ᚹᛖᛥᚫ
(Old English, which transcribed into Latin reads 'He cwaeth that he
bude thaem lande northweardum with tha Westsae.' and means 'He said
that he lived in the northern land near the Western Sea.')
Braille:
⡌⠁⠧⠑ ⠼⠁⠒ ⡍⠜⠇⠑⠹⠰⠎ ⡣⠕⠌
⡍⠜⠇⠑⠹ ⠺⠁⠎ ⠙⠑⠁⠙⠒ ⠞⠕ ⠃⠑⠛⠔ ⠺⠊⠹⠲ ⡹⠻⠑ ⠊⠎ ⠝⠕ ⠙⠳⠃⠞
⠱⠁⠞⠑⠧⠻ ⠁⠃⠳⠞ ⠹⠁⠞⠲ ⡹⠑ ⠗⠑⠛⠊⠌⠻ ⠕⠋ ⠙⠊⠎ ⠃⠥⠗⠊⠁⠇ ⠺⠁⠎
⠎⠊⠛⠝⠫ ⠃⠹ ⠹⠑ ⠊⠇⠻⠛⠹⠍⠁⠝⠂ ⠹⠑ ⠊⠇⠻⠅⠂ ⠹⠑ ⠥⠝⠙⠻⠞⠁⠅⠻⠂
⠁⠝⠙ ⠹⠑ ⠡⠊⠑⠋ ⠍⠳⠗⠝⠻⠲ ⡎⠊⠗⠕⠕⠛⠑ ⠎⠊⠛⠝⠫ ⠊⠞⠲ ⡁⠝⠙
⡎⠊⠗⠕⠕⠛⠑⠰⠎ ⠝⠁⠍⠑ ⠺⠁⠎ ⠛⠕⠕⠙ ⠥⠏⠕⠝ ⠰⡡⠁⠝⠛⠑⠂ ⠋⠕⠗ ⠁⠝⠹⠹⠔⠛ ⠙⠑
⠡⠕⠎⠑ ⠞⠕ ⠏⠥⠞ ⠙⠊⠎ ⠙⠁⠝⠙ ⠞⠕⠲
⡕⠇⠙ ⡍⠜⠇⠑⠹ ⠺⠁⠎ ⠁⠎ ⠙⠑⠁⠙ ⠁⠎ ⠁ ⠙⠕⠕⠗⠤⠝⠁⠊⠇⠲
⡍⠔⠙⠖ ⡊ ⠙⠕⠝⠰⠞ ⠍⠑⠁⠝ ⠞⠕ ⠎⠁⠹ ⠹⠁⠞ ⡊ ⠅⠝⠪⠂ ⠕⠋ ⠍⠹
⠪⠝ ⠅⠝⠪⠇⠫⠛⠑⠂ ⠱⠁⠞ ⠹⠻⠑ ⠊⠎ ⠏⠜⠞⠊⠊⠥⠇⠜⠇⠹ ⠙⠑⠁⠙ ⠁⠃⠳⠞
⠁ ⠙⠕⠕⠗⠤⠝⠁⠊⠇⠲ ⡊ ⠍⠊⠣⠞ ⠙⠁⠧⠑ ⠃⠑⠲ ⠔⠊⠇⠔⠫⠂ ⠍⠹⠎⠑⠇⠋⠂ ⠞⠕
⠗⠑⠛⠜⠙ ⠁ ⠊⠕⠋⠋⠔⠤⠝⠁⠊⠇ ⠁⠎ ⠹⠑ ⠙⠑⠁⠙⠑⠌ ⠏⠊⠑⠊⠑ ⠕⠋ ⠊⠗⠕⠝⠍⠕⠝⠛⠻⠹
⠔ ⠹⠑ ⠞⠗⠁⠙⠑⠲ ⡃⠥⠞ ⠹⠑ ⠺⠊⠎⠙⠕⠍ ⠕⠋ ⠳⠗ ⠁⠝⠊⠑⠌⠕⠗⠎
⠊⠎ ⠔ ⠹⠑ ⠎⠊⠍⠊⠇⠑⠆ ⠁⠝⠙ ⠍⠹ ⠥⠝⠙⠁⠇⠇⠪⠫ ⠙⠁⠝⠙⠎
⠩⠁⠇⠇ ⠝⠕⠞ ⠙⠊⠌⠥⠗⠃ ⠊⠞⠂ ⠕⠗ ⠹⠑ ⡊⠳⠝⠞⠗⠹⠰⠎ ⠙⠕⠝⠑ ⠋⠕⠗⠲ ⡹⠳
⠺⠊⠇⠇ ⠹⠻⠑⠋⠕⠗⠑ ⠏⠻⠍⠊⠞ ⠍⠑ ⠞⠕ ⠗⠑⠏⠑⠁⠞⠂ ⠑⠍⠏⠙⠁⠞⠊⠊⠁⠇⠇⠹⠂ ⠹⠁⠞
⡍⠜⠇⠑⠹ ⠺⠁⠎ ⠁⠎ ⠙⠑⠁⠙ ⠁⠎ ⠁ ⠙⠕⠕⠗⠤⠝⠁⠊⠇⠲
(The first couple of paragraphs of "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens)
Compact font selection example text:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ /0123456789
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz £©µÀÆÖÞßéöÿ
–—‘“”„†•…‰™œŠŸž€ ΑΒΓΔΩαβγδω АБВГДабвгд
∀∂∈ℝ∧∪≡∞ ↑↗↨↻⇣ ┐┼╔╘░►☺♀ fi�⑀₂ἠḂӥẄɐː⍎אԱა
Greetings in various languages:
Hello world, Καλημέρα κόσμε, コンニチハ
Box drawing alignment tests: █
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╔══╦══╗ ┌──┬──┐ ╭──┬──╮ ╭──┬──╮ ┏━━┳━━┓ ┎┒┏┑ ╷ ╻ ┏┯┓ ┌┰┐ ▊ ╱╲╱╲╳╳╳
║┌─╨─┐║ │╔═╧═╗│ │╒═╪═╕│ │╓─╁─╖│ ┃┌─╂─┐┃ ┗╃╄┙ ╶┼╴╺╋╸┠┼┨ ┝╋┥ ▋ ╲╱╲╱╳╳╳
║│╲ ╱│║ │║ ║│ ││ │ ││ │║ ┃ ║│ ┃│ ╿ │┃ ┍╅╆┓ ╵ ╹ ┗┷┛ └┸┘ ▌ ╱╲╱╲╳╳╳
╠╡ ╳ ╞╣ ├╢ ╟┤ ├┼─┼─┼┤ ├╫─╂─╫┤ ┣┿╾┼╼┿┫ ┕┛┖┚ ┌┄┄┐ ╎ ┏┅┅┓ ┋ ▍ ╲╱╲╱╳╳╳
║│╱ ╲│║ │║ ║│ ││ │ ││ │║ ┃ ║│ ┃│ ╽ │┃ ░░▒▒▓▓██ ┊ ┆ ╎ ╏ ┇ ┋ ▎
║└─╥─┘║ │╚═╤═╝│ │╘═╪═╛│ │╙─╀─╜│ ┃└─╂─┘┃ ░░▒▒▓▓██ ┊ ┆ ╎ ╏ ┇ ┋ ▏
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