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Compute C declarations for DEFSYMs automatically.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 15880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15880: Compute C declarations for DEFSYMs automatically.
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 22:10:42 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
>> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,  15880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:08:56 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:33:53 -0800
>> >> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
>> >> CC: rgm <at> gnu.org, 15880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> >> 
>> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> >> > Could we instead just keep the previous semantics of XIL and XLI,
>> >> > please?  They are used in a few places outside lisp.h, so now all of
>> >> > those places need to be audited and most probably changed.  Why isn't
>> >> > it better to change the implementation of just 2 macros instead?
>> >> 
>> >> XIL and XLI haven't changed, and have the same semantics as before: they convert 
>> >> between Lisp_Object and EMACS_INT without altering the bits (i.e., they are 
>> >> no-ops at the machine level).
>> >
>> > That's not what their previous semantics was.  They converted between
>> > a Lisp integer and EMACS_INT.
>> 
>> No, that's called XINT.
>
> OK, a C integer, not EMACS_INT.  But you already knew that, of course.

I don't understand what you are trying to say.

Andreas.

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