Re: master 37889523278: Add new `swap` macro and use it

[Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>]

>> FYI, the claim "Sun C 5.8, a C99 compiler that does presently produce 
>> working Emacs builds" is pure fantasy, aka fabricated evidence.  I had 
>> some free time today, I digged in my archives, and found a copy of 
>> Solaris 10 and Sun Studio 11, which I installed in a VM.  The last 
>> Emacs version for which Sun C 5.8 produces a working Emacs build is... 
>> Emacs 24.
>>
>> Much ado about nothing.  Somehow, I'm not surprised.
>
> Thanks for the information, but please avoid such sarcastic remarks 
> which border on ad-hominem, let alone accusations of "fabrication". We 
> should be able to have a discussion about technical issues without 
> resorting to personal attacks.
>

There are no accusations or personal attacks in what I said.  I'm merely 
naming upleasant facts.  Loudly and repeatedly making, to support one's 
viewpoint, a technical claim that proves to be just plain false, and doing 
that about a system configuration that is obscure enough that, in all 
likelihood, nobody on this list would have access to it, is precisely 
that: fabricating evidence out of thin air.

However, there was indeed a (light) dose of sarcasm in what I said.  We 
had been told, a few hours before my post, that either the C standards 
committee was wrong and overlooked significant information, or I was wrong 
and took their words out of their context [1].  Admire the "either / or": 
someone else must be wrong, there are no other conceivable possibilities. 
And note that we still haven't seen any of the alluded "significant 
information".  A (light) dose of sarcasm seems appropriate to deal with 
such an arrogant attitude.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-01/msg00617.html