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Re: Regarding recent void * change
- To: Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se>
- Subject: Re: Regarding recent void * change
- From: "Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>
- Date: 11 Mar 2000 09:57:59 -0800
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, Bernard URBAN <Bernard dot Urban at meteo dot fr>
- References: <E12TnGP-0005FB-00@mdj.nada.kth.se>
Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:
> Are you sure you know what you're doing?
>
> Note that we'll now have lvalues which are void *. Is it always safe
> to store an arbitrary integer in such a location?
It doesn't matter since the change can be compiled-away with VOIDP_TEST
(which should be SCM_VOIDP_TEST, but that's easy to fix). We could
easily have an autoconf test that turns off the checking if we're on a
"weird for this purpose" architecture.
I should test the compiling-away of the change, but we know the approach
will work.
<snip>
Greg