Re: Re: Flat Short of MEMORY_BLOCK

Eric Bezault:

> > I meant, is inline C acceptable in general?
> No, it's not acceptable in general cases because it would require
> users of some Eiffel compilers which don't need a C compiler
> back-end to install one in order to compile this inline C.

I think Brian later asked whether inline C was OK within 
ifdef for a compiler (subset) that needs a C compiler, so 
perhaps something like.

#ifdef COMPILER_IN_MODE_THAT_REQUIRES_C_COMPILER
  ... inline C ...
#else
  regular Eiffel
#endif

This does not suffer the problem of requiring a C compiler 
when not necessary, but on the other hand we usually want to 
minimise conditional code. I don't know whether it's a good 
idea or not (well, one thing is that if it's done for speed, 
the difference should be benchmarked, we don't want to have 
conditional code based on a guess).



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