Re: Re: Flat Short of MEMORY_BLOCK

Franck Arnaud wrote:
> 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.

But why not using the regular Eiffel code all the time?
At least we won't have to modify our #ifdefs when an Eiffel
compiler which used to require a C compiler adds a compilation
mode for which it is not the case anymore.

> 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).

I cannot see why user-written C code could be faster
than the equivalent functionality provided by the
compilers when they require a C compiler as back-end.
If it was faster to write inline C code, that's what
the Eiffel compiler should have provided in its Eiffel
class, no?

-- 
Eric Bezault
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