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From: freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: Franz / (Sun/68000) array problem
Message-ID: <327@spar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 13:26:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 13 13:26:14 1985
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Reply-To: freeman@max.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
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Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA
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[libation to line-eater]

I have occasion to run Franz Lisp (version 38.91) on a Sun.  I need to use
"fixnum-block" arrays for communication with lower-level routines written
in C.  But when I try to create such an array -- eg with

(array foo fixnum-block 3)         ;; (possibly inside a setq)

I get the (lisp) error message

Error: IMPROPER USE OF SET

The exact same call to "array" works just fine in Franz 38.91 running on a
Vax 11/780, so it must be something to do with the implementation on the Sun
(or perhaps on the 68000).

Any advice?  Patches or work-arounds?  Sympathy?  I am rather new to Franz
(less so to lisp in general), so feel free to belabor the obvious.  If
I get any interesting mailed responses, I will post them to the net.  Thanks.
-- 
Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)(canonical disclaimer)