Re: Understanding CRUNCH embedding

On Fri Dec 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM CET, Diogo Behrens wrote:
>
> I have submitted another one-liner patch, this time to codeberg. It ensures the
> function names are mangled when emitting wrappers.

Thanks - it has been merged.

> Now we have two versions of the library and I think they should have *different*
> names. But -emit-wrappers give the same name "foo" to the module defined in
> foo.wrap.scm.
>
> With two different names I could do this:
>
> ;; some crunch-only code:
> (import foo)
>
> ;; some chicken code:
> (import (foo wrap))
>
> The only change that would be necessary is to derive the module name from the
> emit-wrapper argument instead of using that of the wrapped module.
>
> What do you think?

Perhaps we should leave the choice to the user, by adding a second
argument to -emit-wrappers. Deriving the name from the file is of course
also possible, but I'm afraid of adding unnecessary naming restrictions.
Let me think about this.


cheers,
felix