Re: [PATCH] Re: Patchset related to array functions

[Andy Wingo]

On Wed 31 Aug 2016 11:28, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu 14 Jul 2016 20:20, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I think the concerns are:
>>
>>  (1) Do inlined definitions get inlined?
>>  (2) Are external definitions reified as well?
>>  (3) Do we avoid reifying definitions in each compilation unit?
>>  (4) Can you dlsym() an inline function?
>>
>> All these answers should be yes.  No benchmarking needed, just
>> inspection of the build artifacts under different configurations.
>
> I want to be able to use C11 atomics in Guile, internally.  I think
> externally as far as the interface goes we can probably upgrade to C99
> given that even Emacs uses it these days.  I will try to answer these
> four questions with GCC with C89 and C99, and if the answers are good I
> will upgrade to C99 first, for the build.

Hah!  Turns out we have been compiling in GCC's default mode the whole
time, which is gnu11.  I suspect many users have been doing that too.
We might as well go ahead and require C99 internally plus the C11
features we want.  Again for the external interface (stdint.h et al) we
can also probably require C99 for Guile 2.2, so that we can use uint32_t
and not scm_t_uint32.

Andy