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Compute C declarations for DEFSYMs automatically.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 15880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15880: Compute C declarations for DEFSYMs automatically.
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:32:15 -0800

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> The two variables have the
> same name and same content and are read-only, so the redundancy is harmless.

Hmm, well, I suppose you're right.  Still, the idea of removing the
dependency on DEFSYM-related globals would preclude the potential
optimization of putting these globals into a table at compile-time.
I suppose that part of the issue is that I don't add or remove
DEFSYMs very often, so even aside from the precluded optimization
I'm reluctant to complicate the build system just to save a few
build-time cycles on these rare occasions.

> such that make-docfile finds the "INTERN", infers the Lisp name from the
> C name and writes a "syms.c" file which does little else but initialize
> all those symbols.

I was thinking of something even simpler: no macros at all.
If the C source code mentions an identifier Qfoo_bar, make-docfile
automatically generates the Lisp symbol foo-bar.  To aid transition
we could make DEFSYM a no-op, or we could go through the code and
eliminate all the DEFSYM calls.  (This would all be done after the
current patch is installed, of course.)

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