From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Wette Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: anyone define port types? Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 16:53:36 -0700 Message-ID: <327356C5-3603-405F-B060-3FE1CDBD81BB@verizon.net> References: <87y492mnjp.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459209255 31170 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2016 23:54:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 23:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 01:53:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1akgyt-00050i-8v for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 01:53:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43668 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akgyr-0006nN-MX for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:53:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50975) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akgyp-0006nB-0Q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akgyl-0002ZE-0U for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from omr-m019e.mx.aol.com ([204.29.186.18]:60927) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akgyk-0002WF-SU for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:53:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout-aag02.mx.aol.com (mtaout-aag02.mx.aol.com [172.26.126.78]) by omr-m019e.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id 006D13800096; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:53:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.2.129] (0x5b3139322e3136382e322e3132395d [72.87.216.111]) by mtaout-aag02.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPA id 7E16338000086; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:53:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87y492mnjp.fsf@pobox.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2104) x-aol-global-disposition: G x-aol-sid: 3039ac1a7e4e56f9c40120cc X-AOL-IP: 72.87.216.111 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 204.29.186.18 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:18246 gmane.lisp.guile.user:12515 Archived-At: > On Mar 28, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Andy Wingo wrote: > I am working on improving our port implementation to take advantage of > the opportunity to break ABI in 2.2. I am wondering how much I can > break C API as well -- there are some changes that would allow better > user-space threading I made an attempt to use soft ports, but backed out after I could not = figure a way to extra data I wanted to associate with my port. =20 Addition of an access function to user-defined data would enlarge the = cases for which soft ports could be used. Matt