Re: gcc 2.95 inline scm_is_pair workaround

[Kevin Ryde]

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Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
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> Should we still support GCC 2.95?

It's still in current debian unstable, so it's not totally dead.
Using it guards against some c99-isms (local variables in the middle
of functions) so it has some use for development.

>       * throw.c (scm_ithrow): Remove "asm volatile" hack.  It used to
>       work around a bug in GCC 2.95.2 but is now a bug in itself.

Doesn't look so evil as to cause a bug itself ...

I put mine conditionalized precisely to gcc==2.95, so as to restrict
its effect.  All this sort of thing is pretty ugly, but at least if
it's tightly delimited then it's clear what you can rip out in 10
years time.