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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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  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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