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Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
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Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge |
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Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:14:35 -0300 |
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:17 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> (and I am speaking as a GUILE developer here as well)
>
> So what does relying on undefined behavior buy us apart from the
> inability to debug type errors?
It buys us time to work on more interesting and more valuable improvements.
Speaking as a long-time lilypond developer, it is my experience that
the errors you point out are not a problem (except for the SCM => bool
conversion). GUILE's API uses data that can be passed into C
functions efficiently as parameters. This means that the SCM type
must be a machine word, so the genericity suggested by the GUILE docs
are a joke.
If you feel compelled to change large swaths of source code by
substituting x == SCM_EOL with scm_is_eq(x, SCM_EOL), then I can't
stop you, but to me it just looks like a waste of time.
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, (continued)
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, David Kastrup, 2011/08/16
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, Bertrand Bordage, 2011/08/16
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, David Kastrup, 2011/08/16
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, Bertrand Bordage, 2011/08/17
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, David Kastrup, 2011/08/17
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, David Kastrup, 2011/08/17
Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2011/08/16
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, David Kastrup, 2011/08/16
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, David Kastrup, 2011/08/17
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2011/08/17
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, David Kastrup, 2011/08/17
- Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, David Kastrup, 2011/08/17
Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2011/08/17
Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge, David Kastrup, 2011/08/17