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                                            Alex Shinn

Function producing different outputs for same inputs from different paths

I cloned your repo and was able to reproduce the failed test. For simplicity I commented out all the other tests and changed to use `(chibi test)`: ``` $ chibi...

Updating / overwriting what has been loaded by a previous (load "shared_library.so")

Note in general if you reload a shared library while it's in active use (either via another thread or continuation) your application is likely to crash. That said, it can...

AppVeyor build failing due to array library test failures

Not just arrays, various tests are failing with errors like "substring not defined", looks like the build is corrupt. This only happens for cmake which I'm not too familiar with....

9front compile error

Thanks for the report! I'll add some definitions for those for the `#ifdef PLAN9` case.

`(chibi test)` expected failure

Currently we don't have any way to indicate an expected failure unconditionally, only a way to skip tests, so we'd need to add that first, and update all the reporting....

Error on unfulfilled cond-expand.

Thanks! I have to think about this though. R7RS leaves this unspecified, so there's no requirement to signal an error, and there may be many existing programs relying on the...

Release new version to delivers improvements to end-user.

Yes, let me prepare a new release when I find some time.

Do slow bit-manipulation routines slow irregex materially?

IrRegex should be fast if it can compile the pattern to a DFA, and slow otherwise. In the DFA case the inner loops are dfa-match/{shortest,longest}, and these don't use bitwise...