From: Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: SCM_PTR_LE ?
Date: 30 Jul 2002 19:00:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ljwurdf8w1.fsf@burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15682.60268.422843.138038@blauw.xs4all.nl>
Han-Wen <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:
> Can anyone explain to me why for the love of god, we have _macros_ to
> compare pointers? (i.e. SCM_PTR_LT, SCM_PTR_GE) ? SCM sources
> indicate that this is to support Turbo C running in protected mode on
> i386.
>
> I suggest it be scrapped.
Hmm. The macros look like a potentially useful abstraction to me. We
are not making use of it right now, but it wouldn't feel right to just
remove them and thereby destroy information.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-30 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-27 18:50 SCM_PTR_LE ? Han-Wen
2002-07-30 17:00 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2002-07-30 22:24 ` Han-Wen
2002-08-01 16:40 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-01 17:09 ` Mr. Peter Ivanyi
2002-08-01 17:15 ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-08-01 20:08 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-01 17:16 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-01 17:24 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-01 20:09 ` Marius Vollmer
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