[bitc-dev] bug in character decode routines

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

Thanks. I added the patch.

The bigger issue here is unicode characters, which we haven't got a good
answer for yet.

shap


On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 19:14 +0100, Sam Mason wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Another little buglet -- this time in the character decoding routines!
> If you enter a character literal like #\a it will be decoded as some
> random value (``codePoint'' in LitValue::DecodeRawCharacter() never
> appears to get initialised to anything in this case).
> 
> As far as I can tell (a couple of the unit tests seem to confirm it)
> this is how I would write the single character `a' and I'm not expected
> to write #\{U+61}.  Even if you are, I don't think the computer should
> be writing out random values from uninitialised variables.
> 
> 
>   Sam
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