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Hey guys,

I finally discover the problem, it looks like gtk_init changes the C
locale to use the user one, and since my locale is es_AR.UTF-8, the
strtow function couldn't parse a numeric constant, so this works:

;; test.scm
(import chicken scheme foreign)

#>
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <locale.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
   gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
   setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C"); //<-- this
   CHICKEN_run(C_toplevel);
   return 0;
}
<#

(print "hey")
(return-to-host)

;;

It looks like CHICKEN requires some specific locale, I wonder if it's
worthy to add an assertion check somewhere? (perhaps on
convert_string_to_number?)

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I thought that may be useful to have a test case of this problem
without gtk:

;;
(import chicken scheme foreign)

#>
#include <locale.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
   setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "es_AR.UTF-8");
   CHICKEN_run(C_toplevel);
   return 0;
}
<#

(return-to-host)
;;