<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>I'll wait for tomorrow's regressions to come through and see if it is fixed now for my SOLgnu Tinderbox setup. I see the temptation to eliminate duplication, and for these sorts of POSIX APIs I would expect portable C code to work pretty well.</div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On 17 Dec 2008, at 11:32, Jay wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Tony, Well, it is a matter of degree, but I really dislike the duplication<br>and I believe the portability is plenty attainable. It also didn't compile<br>for me on Cygwin, I did a bit more research and fixed that.<br>It is ok now for SOLgnu? I do have a SOLgnu/sun machine but didn't rebuild there yet.<br>L_SET is not portable.<br> <br> - Jay<br><br>> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:hosking@cs.purdue.edu">hosking@cs.purdue.edu</a><br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jkrell@elego.de">jkrell@elego.de</a><br>> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:33:27 +1100<br>> CC:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:m3devel@elegosoft.com">m3devel@elegosoft.com</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:m3commit@elegosoft.com">m3commit@elegosoft.com</a><br>> Subject: Re: [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> This new file FilePosixC.c does not build on my SOLgnu Tinderbox<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> setup, so the regressions failed last night.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Jay, this is precisely the reason that we don't want to have C-coded<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> files in the Modula-3 code-base -- C might proclaim its portability<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> but that portability is a lie. Why do we need this when the old pure<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Modula-3 setup worked just fine! I know it meant some amount of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> duplication, but that duplication was needed because of differences in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> API specs on different platforms. I am not averse to having<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> *portable* C code, but in this case I think it is too low-level to be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> properly portable. Perhaps better to keep it in Modula-3.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> On 15 Dec 2008, at 18:33, Jay Krell wrote:<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > CVSROOT: /usr/cvs<br>> > Changes by: jkrell@birch. 08/12/15 18:33:17<br>> ><br>> > Modified files:<br>> > cm3/m3-libs/libm3/src/os/POSIX/: FilePosix.i3 FilePosix.m3<br>> > m3makefile<br>> > Added files:<br>> > cm3/m3-libs/libm3/src/os/POSIX/: FilePosixC.c<br>> ><br>> > Log message:<br>> > Remove the need to untangle the #ifdefs around struct flock.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>