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Bug fix in html-lib.scm
by Bradley Lucier 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

Marc: html-lib.scm had only a one-character bug, but having #t instead of #f as the last argument of (define-input-tag) gave <input> tags a closing tag, which was wrong. Sorry. Here's a corrected version. Brad

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Couple more inlining suggestions
by Bradley Lucier 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

I'm just going through the O(N^2) parts of my image smoothing codes and listing the things that come up. Brad 1. (sqrt x) => (if (and (##flonum? x) (##flonum.<= 0. x)) ;; OK for infinities and NaNs (##flonum.sqrt x) (sqrt x)) 2. (max x y) => (cond ((and (##fixnum? x) (##fixnum? y)) (##fixnum.max x y)) ((and (##flonum? x) (##flonum? y)) (##flonum.max x y)) (else (max x y))) 3. Same for min.

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Suggestions for inlining
by Bradley Lucier 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Marc: Here are a few things that could be inlined productively (I won't write the tests to see whether the functions when called are the standard functions). Brad 1. (exact->inexact x) => (if (##fixnum? x) (##flonum.<-fixnum x) (exact->inexact x)) 2. (vector-ref v i) (and all the [suf][8,16,32]vector-ref's) => (if (and (##vector? v) (##fixnum? i) (##fixnum.<= 0 i) (##fixnum.< i (##vector-length v))) (##vector-ref v i) (vector-ref v i)) 3. (vector-set v i x) (and all the [suf][8,16,32]vector-set's with appropriate checks for the value of x) (if (and (##vector? v) (##fixnum? i) (##fixnum.<= 0 i) (##fixnum.< i (##vector-length v))) (##vector-set v i x) (vector-ref v i x))

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|it| in the repl
by Christian 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

Hello Here's a simple patch to make it possible to get the results of previous evaluations in the repl. (Or have I overlooked an existing mechanism for that (other than through the serial number)?) It creates |it| and similar global variables in the default namespace. What (I think) I would prefer, but don't know how to do, is: - make those be bound lexically to the code being entered instead, so that they don't pollute any namespace and don't need any namespace vodoo to be accessed from the entered code. I imagine that the variables could be put into the lexical environment of the code being eval'ed, but simply wrapping with `(let ((it ,old-it)) ,body) wouldn't do (this would at least break top-level defines). - make those variables/bindings per-thread, or maybe even per-repl. (I'd prefer not having to type parens around parameter objects. But shoveling around the values between lexical context and internal state or parameter object values would solve this.) Thanks Christian. --- gambc40b17/lib/_repl.scm.1_orig 2006-01-08 19:19:02.000000000 +0100 +++ gambc40b17/lib/_repl.scm 2006-03-03 03:35:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -1771,6 +1771,12 @@ (##exit)) +(##namespace ("" it it1 it2 it3)) +(define it #!void) +(define it1 #!void) +(define it2 #!void) +(define it3 #!void) + (define-prim (##repl-within cont write-reason) (define (with-clean-exception-handling repl-context thunk) @@ -1943,6 +1949,10 @@ (macro-repl-context-cont repl-context) repl-context (lambda (results) + (set! it3 it2) + (set! it2 it1) + (set! it1 it) + (set! it results) (##call-with-values (lambda () results)

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I/O issues (longish)
by Christian 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Hello I'm trying to write a program which I can use as wrapper around gambit in interactive sessions, especially in emacs, to provide more sensible buffering for making output appear faster in emacs. Here's how I start gambit under emacs currently: #!/bin/bash ulimit -S -v 300000 gsc -:tE,d-,t8,f8 -i -e '(include "/home/chris/schemedevelopment/gambit/chj.scm")' - and here's how I would like to run it once that wrapper is finished: #!/bin/bash ulimit -S -v 300000 bufferi -:tE gsc -:tE,d-,t8,f8 -i -e '(include "/home/chris/schemedevelopment/gambit/chj.scm")' - The "bufferi" program forks off a child connected to the parent through a pipe and exec'ing the given command-line. It then reads input from the pipe into a buffer, which it only writes to stdout if either the buffer is full or a certain time has passed. (In the code pasted at the bottom of this mail, buflen is set to 10 bytes, and timeout to .03 seconds.) There are a few issues I've run into: 1. when using open-process, the subprocess doesn's seem to be connected to the original standard input anymore. why? (try it out by commenting out section "a)" in the bufferi-standalone.scm code and uncommenting the section "b)".) 2. when I use a self-written pipe/fork/dup2/exec infrastructure instead of open-process, I'm getting an "Invalid argument" exception unless I run ##char-ready? onto the current-input-port before dup'ing the pipe into it's position. Yes I'm changing fd 0 underneath the gambit runtime. How could I "cleanly" create a port from an existing unix fd instead? 2. when I use that self-written pipe/fork/dup2/exec infrastructure, the child actually *can* read from the original standard input, as it should, but it is getting an "Resource temporarily unavailable" error. I think it is because of O_NONBLOCK. I'm trying to switch that flag off, but with only marginal success (for more details see below). 3. compiler warnings (those don't seem to disturb operation, but I thought I'd ask about them anyway) First to issue # 3 since it's the easiest: $ gscompile bufferi-standalone.scm #gscompile is a script by myself gsc -warnings bufferi-standalone gcc -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 bufferi-standalone.c bufferi-standalone_.c -I/usr/local/Gambit-C/include -L/usr/local/Gambit-C/lib -lgambc -lm -lutil -ldl -o bufferi-standalone bufferi-standalone.c: In function `___H__20_bufferi_2d_standalone_23_2': bufferi-standalone.c:1734: warning: passing arg 2 of `___SCMOBJ_to_NONNULLLATIN1STRINGLIST' from incompatible pointer type bufferi-standalone.c:1737: warning: passing arg 2 of `forkexec_with_pipe' from incompatible pointer type line 1734 is: ___BEGIN_CFUN_maybe_latin1_string_list_to_charpp(___ARG3,___arg3,3) line 1737 is: ___CFUN_CALL(___result,forkexec_with_pipe(___arg1,___arg2,___arg3)) Issue # 2: $ ./bufferi-standalone -:tE,-u,tu,fu /bin/cat abcdefghijklmnopq<cr> res=10 abcdefghijRSTUVWXYZ<cr> res=10 klmnopq RSres=10 TUVWXYZ /bres=10 in/cat: -:res=10 Resource res=10 temporarilres=10 y unavailares=4 ble I think cat terminates because it is reading from an fd which is in O_NONBLOCK mode. So I have written fd-nonblocking-set! and fd-nonb functions. They work like this: > (fd-nonblocking? 0) #t > (fd-nonblocking? 1) #t > (fd-nonblocking? 3) #t > (fd-nonblocking-set! 0 #f) > (fd-nonblocking? 0) #f > (fd-nonblocking? 1) #f > (fd-nonblocking? 3) #t > (fd-nonblocking? 1) #f you can see that setting the O_NONBLOCK flag on one fd may also change another one, probably because fd's 0/1/2 are actually all copies of the same (as lsof shows): gsc 28295 chris 0u CHR 136,26 28 /dev/pts/26 gsc 28295 chris 1u CHR 136,26 28 /dev/pts/26 gsc 28295 chris 2u CHR 136,26 28 /dev/pts/26 gsc 28295 chris 3u CHR 5,0 185218 /dev/tty Unix also has sort of a design bug, as D.J.Bernstein has pointed out (http://cr.yp.to/unix/nonblock.html) So the best solution which is possible with what unix offers is probably to make sure that an fd is not being used by different programs at the same time. So gambit would need a function which releases an fd from it's control (and restores the previous O_NONBLOCK setting), but doesn't close it.(*) Back to "bufferi-standalone": here are relevant parts of strace output of the gambit process: one can see that some party is adding O_NONBLOCK again (after the child is already running), which makes the child (cat) fail soon. fcntl64(0, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) fcntl64(0, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 0 #that's probably from gambit itself? but no, gambit doesn't have # O_LARGEFILE in it's sources. fcntl64(0, F_GETFL) = 0x8802 (flags O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) fcntl64(0, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 0 # this has probably been from my call. clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7a322e8) = 21787 fcntl64(0, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fcntl64(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY) = 0 # this has probably been from my call, too fcntl64(1, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) fcntl64(1, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 0 # this must have been from the gambit runtime. # and, since fd 1 is still /dev/pts/26, it will also set fd 0 of cat. fcntl64(0, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fcntl64(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY) = 0 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- # so cat has exited now # (question: why is O_LARGEFILE not there anymore now?) fcntl64(0, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fcntl64(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY) = 0 fcntl64(0, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fcntl64(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY) = 0 .. fcntl64(1, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 0 (*) Well, I realize, that it's more difficult than only releasing an fd out of gambit control. As seen in the above strace, it's enough for gambit carrying the same open file as another fd (namely fd 1) and the problem persists. The ugly thing is that I cannot remove fd 1 from gambit's control as well, since I want to write output to it. So I have another (more important, or additional) suggestion: could gambit be instructed to not use O_NONBLOCK at all? Maybe it could even transparently defer switching on O_NONBLOCK until it really has multiple active threads at once. (Maybe additionally D.J. Bernstein's approach could be cloned? Quoting him: "Here's what I'm doing now: 1. Call read() or write() without further ado if the descriptor was originally provided in O_NONBLOCK mode or refers to a regular file. (Of course, it's possible that somebody subsequently turned O_NONBLOCK off; every program relying on O_NONBLOCK is taking this risk.) 2. Use poll(), if it's available and functioning, to check whether the descriptor is ready. 3. Set an interval timer. 4. Call read() or write(). 5. Turn the interval timer off." but just being able to instruct gambit to not use O_NONBLOCK globally would be enough for my case.) Thanks Christian. Here are the two files for testing the above. "cj-fork-util.scm" contains the lowlevel C stuff, "bufferi-standalone.scm" the application code. cj-fork-util.scm: -------------------------------------------------- ; cj Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:48:51 +0100 (declare (block) (standard-bindings) (extended-bindings) ) (define-macro (thunk first . rest) `(lambda() ,first ,@rest)) (c-declare #<<END #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <stdlib.h> /* exit */ #include <fcntl.h> extern char **environ; // man 5/7 environ static int our_errno=0; #define OUR_BUFSIZ 8192 static char* our_childerrmsg; #define ERR(n) { our_errno=errno; return n; } // (btw: do we need to do some close-on-exec control on gambit fd's?) static pid_t forkexec_with_pipe (char* filename, char*const argv[], char*const envp[]) { int data[2]; int errmsg[2]; if (!our_childerrmsg) { /* allocate once */ our_childerrmsg= malloc(OUR_BUFSIZ); if (!our_childerrmsg) ERR(-10); } our_childerrmsg[0]=0; if (pipe(data)) ERR(-1); if (pipe(errmsg)) ERR(-1); // if (fcntl(data[0],F_SETFL,O_NONBLOCK|O_ASYNC)<0) /* "... Linux this command can only change the O_APPEND, O_NONBLOCK, O_ASYNC, and O_DIRECT flags." but: which ones is gambit using? do we switch off the other(s)? */ //ERR(-13); // (the above isn't essential for me) { pid_t pid= fork(); if (pid<0) { close(data[0]); close(data[1]); close(errmsg[0]); close(errmsg[1]); ERR(-2); } if (pid) { if (close(data[1])) ERR(-3); if (close(errmsg[1])) ERR(-3); if (dup2(data[0],0)) ERR(-4); if (close(data[0])) ERR(-5); { ssize_t n_read= read(errmsg[0], our_childerrmsg, OUR_BUFSIZ); our_childerrmsg[OUR_BUFSIZ-1]=0; our_childerrmsg[OUR_BUFSIZ-2]='.'; our_childerrmsg[OUR_BUFSIZ-3]='.'; our_childerrmsg[OUR_BUFSIZ-4]='.'; if (close(errmsg[0])) ERR(-12); if (n_read<0) ERR(-11); if (n_read>0) ERR(-100); } return pid; } else { #define CHILDERR(exitcode, msg, args...) \ { snprintf(our_childerrmsg, OUR_BUFSIZ, msg, ##args); \ write(errmsg[1], our_childerrmsg, OUR_BUFSIZ); /* just write whole buf */ \ exit(exitcode); } /* well since we are not returning but exiting, could have written function instead of macro */ if (close(data[0])) CHILDERR(33,"close(data[0]): %s",strerror(errno)); if (dup2(data[1],1)<0) CHILDERR(34,"dup2 fd 1: %s",strerror(errno)); if (dup2(data[1],2)<0) CHILDERR(35,"dup2 fd 2: %s",strerror(errno)); if (close(data[1])) CHILDERR(36,"close: %s",strerror(errno)); if (fcntl(errmsg[1], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)) CHILDERR(37,"fcntl: %s",strerror(errno)); //close(errmsg[1]); execve(filename,argv,envp ? envp : environ); CHILDERR(127,"could not exec '%s': %s", filename, strerror(errno)); } } } #define ___BEGIN_CFUN_maybe_latin1_string_list_to_charpp(s, c, i) \ { \ int do_not_create_list= (___FAL == s); \ if (do_not_create_list) { c=NULL; } \ if (do_not_create_list || ((___err= ___SCMOBJ_to_NONNULLLATIN1STRINGLIST(s,&c,i))== ___FIX(___NO_ERR))) { \ #define ___END_CFUN_maybe_latin1_string_list_to_charpp(s, c, i) \ if (c && ! do_not_create_list) ___EXT(___release_string_list)(c); \ } \ } END ) (c-define-type maybe-latin1-string-list "char**" ; (pointer (pointer "char")) "NOTIMPLEMENTED" "maybe_latin1_string_list_to_charpp" #t; from scheme to C todo find out finally ) (define our-os-errstr (c-lambda () latin1-string "___result= strerror(our_errno);")) (define our-childerrmsg (c-lambda () latin1-string "___result= our_childerrmsg;")) (define (fork-exec/pipe filename argument-list #!optional maybe-env-list) (let ((res ((c-lambda (nonnull-latin1-string nonnull-latin1-string-list maybe-latin1-string-list) int "forkexec_with_pipe") filename argument-list maybe-env-list))) (cond ((>= res 0) res) ((assoc res '((-1 "pipe:" #t) (-2 "fork:" #t) (-3 "close(filedes[1]):" #t) (-4 "dup2:" #t) (-5 "close(filedes[0]):" #t) (-10 "malloc:" #t) (-11 "reading from error message pipe:" #t) (-12 "close(errmsg[0]):" #t) (-13 "fcntl(data[0]):" #t) )) => (lambda (p) (error (string-append "fork-exec/pipe: " (cadr p) (if (caddr p) (our-os-errstr) ""))))) ((= res -100) (error (string-append "fork-exec/pipe: child said: " (our-childerrmsg)))) (else (error "fork-exec/pipe: unknown error code" res))))) ; --- other more direct posix stuff: ---- (c-declare "#include <signal.h>") (define (->string obj) ;; oo sys?. (cond ((string? obj) obj) ((number? obj) (number->string obj)) ((boolean? obj) (if obj "#t" "#f")) (else (error "->string: unknown type of:" obj)))) (define (posix-kill pid sig #!optional error-cont (success-cont (thunk (if error-cont #t #!void)))) (let ((error-cont (or error-cont (thunk (error (string-append "posix-kill(" (->string pid) ", " (->string sig) "): " (our-os-errstr))))))) ((if ((c-lambda (int ;; actually pid_t int) scheme-object "if (kill(___arg1,___arg2)<0) { our_errno=errno; ___result= ___FAL; } else { ___result= ___TRU; }") pid sig) success-cont error-cont)))) (define (fd-nonblocking? fd) (let ((res ((c-lambda (int) scheme-object "{int res= fcntl(___arg1,F_GETFL); if (res<0) { our_errno=errno; ___result= ___VOID; } else ___result= (res & O_NONBLOCK) ? ___TRU : ___FAL;}") fd))) (if (boolean? res) res (error (string-append "(fd-nonblocking? " (->string fd) "): " (our-os-errstr)))))) (define (fd-nonblocking-set! fd yes?) (let ((res ((c-lambda (int bool) scheme-object "{ int res= fcntl(___arg1,F_GETFL); if (res<0) { our_errno=errno; ___result= ___FIX(-1); } else { int res2= fcntl(___arg1,F_SETFL, (___arg2 ? (res|O_NONBLOCK) : (res & (~ O_NONBLOCK)))); if (res2<0) { our_errno=errno; ___result= ___FIX(-2); } else { ___result= ___FIX(0); } } }") fd yes?)) (err (lambda (msg) (error (string-append "(fd-nonblocking-set! " (->string fd) " " (->string yes?) "): " msg (our-os-errstr)))))) (case res ((0) ;; success #!void) ((-1) (err "fcntl get: ")) ((-2) (err "fcntl set: ")) (else (err "at UNKNOWN place: "))))) bufferi-standalone.scm: ---------------------------------------------- (include "cj-fork-util.scm") (define buflen 10) (define timeout .03) (define (Do in out) (let ((buf (make-u8vector buflen)) (is-timeout #f)) (letrec ((timeout-set! (thunk (input-port-timeout-set! in timeout timeout-set!) (set! is-timeout #t) #f))) (dynamic-wind timeout-set! (thunk (let lp () (set! is-timeout #f) (fd-nonblocking-set! 0 #f);;;; (let ((res (read-subu8vector buf 0 buflen in))) (if (= res 0) (if is-timeout (lp) #!eof) (begin (display (list "res=" res "\n")) (write-subu8vector buf 0 res out) (lp)))))) (thunk (input-port-timeout-set! in +inf.)))))) (define in (current-input-port)) (define out (current-output-port)) (define (Run cmd) (##char-ready? in) ;; helps against "*** ERROR IN Do -- Invalid argument \n (read-subu8vector '#u8(0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0) 0 10 '#<input-port #2 (stdin)>)" (fd-nonblocking-set! 0 #f) ;; helps for a short time to enable cat to read from stdin, but only in the fork-exec/pipe case, not in the open-process case ;; comment out one of the following two code versions a) or b): ;; a) using my lowlevel stuff from cj-fork-util.scm: (let* ((cmd-port (current-input-port)) (childpid (fork-exec/pipe (car cmd) cmd))) ;; b) using open-process and process-pid: ; (let* ((cmd-port (open-process (list path: (car cmd) ; arguments: (cdr cmd) ; stderr-redirection: #t ; ))) ; (childpid (process-pid cmd-port))) ;; common code: (parameterize ((current-user-interrupt-handler (thunk (display "got signal, proxying\n") (posix-kill childpid 2) #f))) (Do cmd-port (current-output-port))))) (Run (cdr (command-line)))

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Problem with loading files
by Bradley Lucier 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Marc: I'm getting the following error on MacOS X 10.4.5: [lindv2:~/Desktop/final] lucier% gsc Gambit Version 4.0 beta 17 > (load "generic-arrays") "/Users/lucier/Desktop/final/generic-arrays.scm" > (load "pgm.scm") *** ERROR IN ##load -- (Argument 1) VECTOR expected (vector-length '#<readtable #2>) 1> > *** EOF again to exit This is the first time I've been able to isolate it (believe it or not), but it's been happening for weeks, if not months. Can I work around this? Brad PS: Here are the input files:

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Compiling 4.0b17 on OS X 10.3
by Scott Weeks 17 Fév '06

17 Fév '06

Hello all, Each time I try to compile gambit I get the following error: /bin/sh: line 1: ../gsc/gsc: No such file or directory make: *** [_kernel.c] Error 127 Or a variation thereof. I've tried ./configure with the following options --enable-single-host --enable-cplusplus --enable-shared --enable-debug in various combinations (as well as without any options). It looks like there's supposed to be an executable compiled in the gsc directory and it's not happening. Does anyone have any pointers? I've done a bit of searching but my google-foo must be a bit weak. I'm running OS X 10.3.9 with gcc 3.3 Cheers, Scott

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Re: FFI and vectors
by Marc Feeley 16 Fév '06

16 Fév '06

> From: "John Emhoff" <thehofffs(a)hotmail.com> > Date: February 7, 2006 6:24:16 PM EST (CA) > To: gambit-list(a)iro.umontreal.ca > Subject: FFI and vectors > > Is there a way I can convert a u32vector or whatever to the appropriate C type (unsigned int * or > void*) to give to a c- lambda? The docs aren't too explicit on how to do this, as far as I can tell... There is no builtin conversion between u32vectors and the C ___U32* pointer type. I may add this in the future, but I haven't yet because the "correct" implementation (which copies the u32vector to a C heap allocated array of ___U32) is probably too slow for most applications. A way around this is to pass a "scheme-object" and to cast it to a ___U32*. This will only work if you know that the garbage collector will not be called (this might move the object). This (untested) code should do the trick: (c-declare "int foo (___U32* v) { return v[0] + v[1] + v[2]; }") (define foo (c-lambda (scheme-object) int "___result = foo (___CAST (___U32*,___BODY(___arg1)));")) (pp (foo (u32vector 1 2 3))) Marc

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Problem with u8vector ports
by Bruno Deferrari 16 Fév '06

16 Fév '06

I'm having some problems with u8vector ports, what happens is that when there is no more data, instead of returning the EOF object, it signals an error. Could this be a bug?? Here is an example of an interaction with gsi: > (define u8vec (make-u8vector 10 97)) > u8vec #u8(97 97 97 97 97 97 97 97 97 97) > (call-with-input-u8vector u8vec (lambda (p) (read-all p read-char))) (u8vector-rbuf-fill #<input-port #2 (u8vector)> 1 #t) 1> ,b 0 ##make-u8vector-port 1 ##char-rbuf-fill 2 ##read-char 3 ##read-all 4 call-with-input-u8vector 5 (interaction) (console)@3:1 (call-with-input-u8vect...

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Gambit and Meroon
by John 10 Fév '06

10 Fév '06

Yo yo -- I'd like to get Meroon up in Gambit. I'm using Bradley Lucier's port, which seems to almost work. With the requisite (load "_meroon") in gambcini, I can use meroon in gsi. But gsc complains quite a bit: $ gsc class.scm [ Meroon V3 Paques2001+1 $Revision: 1.1 $ ] *** WARNING -- "Class-allocator" is not defined, *** referenced in: ("class.c") *** WARNING -- "Inlinable-Class-class" is not defined, *** referenced in: ("class.c") ... and so on. The build succeeds, but the executable fails like so: *** ERROR IN | class| -- Operator is not a PROCEDURE (#!unbound #!unbound) Am I doing something wrong? -- John

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