From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rewriting make-docfile.c in Lisp? Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 17:18:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zgx9rx7w.fsf@catern.com> <83bl9p2m6s.fsf@gnu.org> <87v97xrurb.fsf@catern.com> <87r1ilrpnt.fsf@catern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22466"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Spencer Baugh , Alan Mackenzie , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 23:34:39 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lePAF-0005i0-7G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 May 2021 23:34:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57202 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lePAE-0004S6-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 May 2021 17:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41978) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1leOvI-00013s-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2021 17:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:19945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1leOvE-00006S-Io; Wed, 05 May 2021 17:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id DDB8B1001FB; Wed, 5 May 2021 17:19:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id EB88510019F; Wed, 5 May 2021 17:19:00 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1620249540; bh=Kd9zHhZDpWGIjoT9LyY4+aNAFzSxC+K5sdBGjdQuueQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=am8exHiZvslhUKPnwXmU7Z2BjBOc6IcJdwqEWrADcjMScFswKUGmpjpnO99uahOsw nUPz7nhZlNGkZgY6EMQKiWFx2hAeUKfJzDUDvpJ+zNb9jaZP0SNY7crblrCFJzjnBu OfMXNJDlSmq7whOXn3FGr7yT65f2Zme9snOcoLL0b0R/uEmjcmKMYwx2gd7Ii2CNq0 PaXazli1MwKOY398/8MuWO213Zpf39ib4LiTRHdXgvml3rG6kQBGBQoP1EHKk0aPEy pIspW3Vect4myZ2Rj6NGJz3Yn237K2pXnzCyJxV/sbfuV6Z9Tck+vfIs0OOSxn8fSo YCUjUsfZIRWUg== Original-Received: from alfajor (76-10-140-76.dsl.teksavvy.com [76.10.140.76]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A05B4120175; Wed, 5 May 2021 17:19:00 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 05 May 2021 16:05:45 -0400") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:268935 Archived-At: >> Agreed: I'm generally all for writing ELisp instead of C, but >> I wouldn't bother rewriting this code in ELisp, personally. > Sounds like the etc/TODO entry that suggests doing just this should be > updated/removed then. It refers to > https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2012-06/msg00037.html But there the idea was specifically for the scan of .el(c) files and not for the scan of C files. Also the idea was not to implement a new scanning code but to do it from existing code that already looks at the files (e.g. `autoloads.el` or the `bytecomp.el`). Stefan