Re: Thoughts on the simplification of CLISP

> * Pascal Bourguignon <[email protected]> [2017-01-10 23:28:25 +0100]:
>
>> On 10 Jan 2017, at 22:16, Sam Steingold <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I think we need to drop the gratuitous preprocessors (varbrace &
>> comment5) and rename all files to *.c.
>> We need to preprocess them into *.m.c behind the scenes.
>> lisbpbibl.d should be lisbpbibl.h and not preprocessed.
>> &c.
>
> Well, I both agree and disagree.
>
>
> Pure C code is good, and it would be great for portability, if one could
> write 100% purely standard C11 code.

I never proposed removing assembly &c.

> Like, no trick like libsigsegv, or worse ffcall/avcall which can never
> be compiled on new or exotic systems.
> Just pure standard entirely defined behavior C11 code.

I am certainly not proposing that.
If you look at a previous message, I explain the gctrigger preprocessor
and why it is desirable.

What I am opposed to is "gratuitous syntax modifications".


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