[RFC 00/14] Port to Guile 3.0
Tom Tromey <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:41:59 -0600
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I tried re-running cgen this week and was surprised to find it didn't work with any version of Guile that I had available. Apparently it works with the long-since-obsolete Guile 1.8, and nothing newer. This series is my attempt at a port, with random other cleanups mixed in. Note that Guile 2.x also doesn't really seem to work -- it was very slow and never completed. I got impatient, so I'm not sure if it would have eventually, or if there is some bug. I didn't try Guile 1.8 but I would assume it no longer works after this series. The Guile compiler cannot be used due to the loading approach taken in cgen. This can be fixed but it is a somewhat larger effort, either involving real modules or the use of the slib require/provide system. Another possible change would be removing cos.scm in favor of Guile's built-in object system. Patch #10 is basically a hack to work around a problem with the custom object system. It can probably be fixed in a better way, but I didn't bother. I rebuilt all the cgen code in binutils-gdb with this patch after Alan's recent regeneration, and verified there are no changes. Tom