Re: master 37889523278: Add new `swap` macro and use it

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 01:25:49 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 
> >> FYI, the claim "Sun C 5.8, a C99 compiler that does presently produce 
> >> working Emacs builds" is pure fantasy, aka fabricated evidence.  I had 
> >> some free time today, I digged in my archives, and found a copy of 
> >> Solaris 10 and Sun Studio 11, which I installed in a VM.  The last 
> >> Emacs version for which Sun C 5.8 produces a working Emacs build is... 
> >> Emacs 24.
> >>
> >> Much ado about nothing.  Somehow, I'm not surprised.
> >
> > Thanks for the information, but please avoid such sarcastic remarks 
> > which border on ad-hominem, let alone accusations of "fabrication". We 
> > should be able to have a discussion about technical issues without 
> > resorting to personal attacks.
> 
> There are no accusations or personal attacks in what I said.

You are not objective about this, because it's your post.  Please take
it from a bystander who is less emotionally involved in that
discussion: there's a clear personal attack in the wording you've
chosen.

> Loudly and repeatedly making, to support one's viewpoint, a
> technical claim that proves to be just plain false, and doing that
> about a system configuration that is obscure enough that, in all
> likelihood, nobody on this list would have access to it, is
> precisely that: fabricating evidence out of thin air.

Given your command of the English language, I'm sure you could find
any number of ways of expressing the same ideas in a less insulting
manner.  Which is what I'm asking you to do in the future, please,
simply because keeping the flames down makes the discussions more
productive, if not for reasons of general kindness and politeness.

TIA