[Sbcl-devel] No broken fasl left behind?

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

CLHS COMPILE-FILE entry says that the primary value of COMPILE-FILE
is NIL if "file could not be created". We currently implement this meaning
"could not create the file in the filesystem", which I submit is suboptimal.

I propose to interpret the entry to mean "_fasl_ could not be created", and
return NIL (and clean up the fasl) if the compilation was aborted.

Is this sane, or taking too many liberties?

Attached a patch that implements this.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus