[M3devel] [M3commit] FilePosixC.c

[Tony Hosking]

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.

On 17 Dec 2008, at 11:32, Jay wrote:

> Tony, Well, it is a matter of degree, but I really dislike the  
> duplication
> and I believe the portability is plenty attainable. It also didn't  
> compile
> for me on Cygwin, I did a bit more research and fixed that.
> It is ok now for SOLgnu? I do have a SOLgnu/sun machine but didn't  
> rebuild there yet.
> L_SET is not portable.
>
>  - Jay
>
> > From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
> > To: jkrell at elego.de
> > Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:33:27 +1100
> > CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com; m3commit at elegosoft.com
> > Subject: Re: [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3
> >
> > This new file FilePosixC.c does not build on my SOLgnu Tinderbox
> > setup, so the regressions failed last night.
> >
> > Jay, this is precisely the reason that we don't want to have C-coded
> > files in the Modula-3 code-base -- C might proclaim its portability
> > but that portability is a lie. Why do we need this when the old pure
> > Modula-3 setup worked just fine! I know it meant some amount of
> > duplication, but that duplication was needed because of  
> differences in
> > API specs on different platforms. I am not averse to having
> > *portable* C code, but in this case I think it is too low-level to  
> be
> > properly portable. Perhaps better to keep it in Modula-3.
> >
> > On 15 Dec 2008, at 18:33, Jay Krell wrote:
> >
> > > CVSROOT: /usr/cvs
> > > Changes by: jkrell at birch. 08/12/15 18:33:17
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > cm3/m3-libs/libm3/src/os/POSIX/: FilePosix.i3 FilePosix.m3
> > > m3makefile
> > > Added files:
> > > cm3/m3-libs/libm3/src/os/POSIX/: FilePosixC.c
> > >
> > > Log message:
> > > Remove the need to untangle the #ifdefs around struct flock.
> >
>

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