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Store references in SBCL-compiled code are "invisible"

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv <at> posteo.net>, Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>, 33848 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33848: Store references in SBCL-compiled code are "invisible"
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:13:23 +0200

Hi Mark,

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

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> What could have been nice is if there’s a way to mark specific strings
>> as being ASCII, or if there’s a “byte vector” data type compatible with
>> strings, for instance.
>
> Do we know that all strings containing store references will be
> representable in ASCII?

The basename part of /gnu/store/* is guaranteed to be pure ASCII.  Now,
you’re right that file names that come after could be non-ASCII, though
that’s very unlikely.  We’d have to look at concrete examples I guess.

Ludo’.

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