From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ajmr@ilovetortilladepatatas.com, fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows 64 port
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:28:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4F1721.6060201@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83aa41c6hq.fsf@gnu.org>
On 02/29/2012 08:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> There's nothing bogus about using the right data type
But the code in question is already using a correct data type.
That is, for the diffs marked "Not needed for Windows 64" in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-02/msg00762.html>,
Emacs is already using data types that work,
both on mainstream platforms and on Windows 64.
> or declare a variable or an argument `const' when it is.
Suppose someone proposed lots of patches like this:
- size_t len = strlen (string);
+ size_t const len = strlen (string);
on the grounds that the XYZ Corp. compiler warns whenever
code fails to use 'const' at every opportunity.
That would be bogus -- that's not the Emacs
programming style, and we shouldn't slavishly alter
mainstream code merely to pacify a third-party compiler
that prefers a different style.
> I asked several times to do the same for texinfo.tex when you sync with
> gnulib, and you declined.
Those patches were automatically merged from an already-debugged
and well-modularized upstream, and it's trivial to see which parts
affect texinfo.tex.
In contrast, here we're dealing with a handwritten patch that is
tickling core Emacs internals in tricky, low-level ways, a patch that
almost surely still contains bugs, partly because it is trying to do
too much at once. It's entirely appropriate to spend more time with
such a patch, to see which parts are really needed for Windows 64, and
to isolate the changes as much as possible to the Windows-specific
code base.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-01 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-19 20:18 Windows 64 port AJMR
2012-02-19 21:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-19 22:05 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-02-20 3:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-20 17:48 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-20 19:20 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-02-20 20:43 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-20 20:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-20 23:11 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-02-20 23:46 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-21 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-21 18:26 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-22 10:39 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-22 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-23 18:44 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-23 19:16 ` Aurélien
2012-02-23 19:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-23 20:48 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-02-24 5:52 ` Aurélien
2012-02-28 21:00 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-02-28 22:09 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-28 22:39 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-02-29 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-29 22:08 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-29 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-29 19:43 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-29 21:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-01 3:34 ` Paul Eggert
2012-03-01 4:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-01 6:28 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2012-03-01 7:04 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-22 17:31 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-23 18:26 ` Paul Eggert
2012-03-24 9:27 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-22 17:39 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-22 18:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-03-22 18:34 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-22 22:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-03-22 23:06 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-22 23:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-03-23 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-23 9:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-03-23 10:27 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-23 10:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-03-23 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-23 10:11 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-23 18:13 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-20 20:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-26 20:17 ` AJMR
2012-02-26 21:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-27 17:37 ` AJMR
2012-02-28 21:32 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-01 3:23 ` Paul Eggert
2012-03-01 7:24 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-01 8:58 ` Paul Eggert
2012-03-01 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-01 20:05 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-02 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-02 20:35 ` Paul Eggert
2012-03-02 21:32 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-02 22:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-03 5:42 ` Paul Eggert
2012-03-03 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-04 21:48 ` Paul Eggert
2012-03-03 7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-10 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-22 17:15 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-22 17:22 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-22 18:29 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-22 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-27 12:47 ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-03-27 16:08 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-20 9:41 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-20 10:28 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-02-21 12:10 ` Richard Stallman
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