bug#33848: Store references in SBCL-compiled code are "invisible"

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>> - The main recommendation for an easy fix without updating the scanner
>>   is that we tweaked our build system to dump the store reference to a
>>   separate ASCII file.
>
> Sounds good.  I made a similar proposal in Dec 2018, earlier in this
> thread <https://bugs.gnu.org/33848#31>.  I wrote:
>
>   If you don't want to change the daemon, it could be worked around in our
>   build-side code as follows: we could add a new phase to certain build
>   systems (or possibly gnu-build-system) that scans each output for
>   UTF-16/32 encoded store references that are never referenced in UTF-8.
>   If such references exist, a file with an unobtrusive name would be added
>   to that output containing those references encoded in UTF-8.  This would
>   enable our daemon's existing reference scanner to find all of the
>   references.
>
>   Our grafting code would then need to be extended to recognize and
>   transform store references encoded in UTF-16/32 as well as UTF-8.

Oh thanks for the reminder.

The separate ASCII file doesn’t solve it all because, as you write, we’d
need to change the grafting code as well.

Then it might be simpler to use a “byte vector” data type for those
strings.  We’ll have to wait for Pierre’s patches to get a better idea.
:-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.