I'm using version 2.1 pulled from git, maybe a few days or week before the bug was opened. On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Linas, > > Linas Vepstas skribis: > > > The following crashes instantly; I used single-quotes by accident. > > > > (open-file "/tmp/lg" 'w') > > > > Stack: > > > > Enter `,help' for help. > > scheme@(guile-user)> (open-file "/tmp/lg" 'w') > > > > Thread 1 "guile" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > > scm_i_mode_to_open_flags (mode=mode@entry=0x555555ac5660, > > is_binary=is_binary@entry=0x7fffffffd46c, > > FUNC_NAME=FUNC_NAME@entry=0x7ffff7b89a7d "open-file") > > at ../../libguile/fports.c:168 > > What version of Guile are you using? With 2.0.13, I get: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > scheme@(guile-user)> (open-file "/tmp/lg" 'w') > ERROR: In procedure open-file: > ERROR: In procedure open-file: Value out of range: w' > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Ludo’. >