From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: stop using P_, __P in header files Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 17:24:49 -0400 Message-ID: <9A690AC5-8C59-4691-88AC-EDDABCF2F704@raeburn.org> References: <4C2DB1E0.7010305@swipnet.se> <83aaqa9ml7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278278709 7875 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2010 21:25:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 21:25:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Developers To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 04 23:25:07 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVWgT-0004x2-Sh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:25:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39337 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OVWgT-0006p5-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38950 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OVWgO-0006or-0f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVWgM-000087-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:24:59 -0400 Original-Received: from splat.raeburn.org ([69.25.196.39]:55027 helo=raeburn.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVWgE-00007Q-Uu; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:24:58 -0400 Original-Received: from squish.raeburn.org (squish.raeburn.org [10.0.0.172]) by raeburn.org (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o64LOnKf001531; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 17:24:49 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126764 Archived-At: On Jul 4, 2010, at 12:46, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > There are some remaining issues to solve: >=20 > - DEFUNs need to be converted by hand, protoize does not know anything = about them. (By *hand*?? Ugh. We really need a tool that implements some kind of = editing macros... :-) Also, I believe make-docfile scans the argument lists; it may need to be = taught about the new syntax. Or, the explicit old-style argument declarations can go away, and DEFUN = can be taught how to expand a list of argument names into a list of = new-style argument declarations. I thought about doing this back in May = when we were discussing the DOC file name handling and version number = definition; I think it would require making a bunch of helper macros for = each MAXARGS value that could get passed. (I was thinking about it in = the context of putting the doc strings in a section of the executable = that only gets paged in when needed on most platforms, rather than = having to copy them to and then load from a separate file.) > - the error and message functions in lisp.h are called with variable > number of arguments, but are defined with a fixed number of = arguments. They should probably be fixed to be standard variadic functions, which = means doprnt() has to be taught about va_arg. I can take a shot at = that, if no one else feels like it; it's probably easy. We could also probably ditch the "register" declarations that date back = to pre-GCC days; do they do *any* good now? Ken=