From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: xenodasein@tutanota.de
Cc: "xenodasein--- viaEmacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
pappasbrent@knights.ucf.edu
Subject: Re: Thoughts on replacing macros with static inline functions
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 15:29:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6ywen4x.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NH8R65Z--3-9@tutanota.de> (xenodasein@tutanota.de's message of "Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:32:39 +0100 (CET)")
xenodasein@tutanota.de writes:
> Lookup why functions are considered an improvement over macros.
I don't.
> As for compiler support, I bet the time spent debugging where there is
> support is going to dwarf where isn't, so trade-off is clear.
You mean, trading debugging time for runtime? That tradeoff was already
made the moment Emacs was written in C, and besides, modern debuginfo
formats already support macros.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-18 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-14 18:05 Thoughts on replacing macros with static inline functions Brent Pappas
2022-11-15 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 5:05 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-18 6:19 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-18 6:27 ` Po Lu
2022-11-18 6:32 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-18 7:29 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-11-18 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 11:31 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-18 11:43 ` Po Lu
2022-11-18 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 6:59 ` tomas
2022-11-18 7:12 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-18 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-18 16:16 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-11-15 13:49 ` Po Lu
2022-11-15 15:54 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-15 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier
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