Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, master, updated. release_1-9-2-164-g0d05ae7

[Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 09:42 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
> >> > -  return scm_getc (input_port);
> >> > +  return scm_get_byte_or_eof (input_port);
> >> 
> >> This is actually an earlier change, but the prototype of scm_getc is now
> >> different from that in 1.8.  Presumably, this means that it’s not
> >> source-compatible with 1.8, e.g., on platforms where
> >> sizeof (int) < sizeof (scm_t_wchar), right?
> 
> I was actually referring to the fact that 1.8 has:
> 
>   SCM_API int scm_getc (SCM port);
> 
> whereas 1.9 has:
> 
>   SCM_API scm_t_wchar scm_getc (SCM port);
> 
> What do you think?

Sorry, I misunderstood.  It is, as you say, incompatible.
scm_t_wchar is scm_t_int32, not int, so 16-bit int platforms
and 64-bit int platforms would notice the change.  I'm fairly
sure Guile doesn't run in 16-bit int platforms, but, 64-bit 
platforms would notice the change.

I'd like to leave it scm_t_wchar == scm_t_int32.  Do you think that's a
problem?

> >> > --- a/libguile/strings.h
> >> > +++ b/libguile/strings.h
> >> > @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ SCM_API SCM scm_substring_shared (SCM str, SCM start, SCM end);
> >> >  SCM_API SCM scm_substring_copy (SCM str, SCM start, SCM end);
> >> >  SCM_API SCM scm_string_append (SCM args);
> >> >  
> >> > -SCM_INTERNAL SCM scm_i_from_stringn (const char *str, size_t len, 
> >> > +SCM_API SCM scm_i_from_stringn (const char *str, size_t len, 
> >> >                                       const char *encoding,
> >> >                                       scm_t_string_failed_conversion_handler 
> >> >                                       handler);
> >> > @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ SCM_INTERNAL const scm_t_wchar *scm_i_string_wide_chars (SCM str);
> >> >  SCM_INTERNAL SCM scm_i_string_start_writing (SCM str);
> >> >  SCM_INTERNAL void scm_i_string_stop_writing (void);
> >> >  SCM_INTERNAL int scm_i_is_narrow_string (SCM str);
> >> > -SCM_INTERNAL scm_t_wchar scm_i_string_ref (SCM str, size_t x);
> >> > +SCM_API scm_t_wchar scm_i_string_ref (SCM str, size_t x);
> >> 
> >> Were these changes intended?
> >
> > Well, one of the two of them was intended.  :)
> 
> Shouldn’t both of them remain internal given that they have an ‘_i_’ in
> their name?

I seemed to need to make scm_i_from_stringn into SCM_API so that I could
use it in libguilereadline.  Pragmatically, it is now functioning as
'SCM_API scm_from_stringn'.  The gray area is if libguilereadline is
philosophically 'internal' or 'external'.  If libguilereadline is
philosophically 'internal' it could keep the name scm_i_from_stringn,
but, if that is just confusing, it should probably become
scm_from_stringn.


> > Until libunistring comes with Unicode regex, I think this is the best we
> > can do.
> 
> Yes, that would be neat!

It is on their todo.  They have header files preallocated for it.  Its a
big job, though.

Thanks,
Mike