From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: SCM_PTR_LE ? Date: 30 Jul 2002 19:00:46 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <15682.60268.422843.138038@blauw.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028048497 4782 127.0.0.1 (30 Jul 2002 17:01:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17ZaNM-0001F1-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:01:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17ZaNo-0006sC-00; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.163.1] helo=mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17ZaNA-0006rn-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:01:24 -0400 Original-Received: from burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.19]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FDB7A3831; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:01:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 520) id 55ADA26139; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:00:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: hanwen@cs.uu.nl In-Reply-To: <15682.60268.422843.138038@blauw.xs4all.nl> Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:892 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:892 Han-Wen 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. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel