Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: (object (*)()) vs (long (*)())

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  OK, you convinced me!  I'm uploading now...

Take care,

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> |> Greetings, and thanks for your *very helpful* reply!
> |> 
> |> OK, now it is clear to me what is going on.  I calling all functions
> |> through a variable declared to return a pointer, and some functions
> |> are returning a long.
> |> 
> |> I can fix the instances in the existing code fairly easily, but the
> |> issue is that the lisp compiler produces C code using these
> |> interchangeable declarations.  At some point, I need to either have
> |> all compiled functions return the same union and use the existing
> |> function link helper functions (in funlink.c, et.al.), or to duplicate
> |> these functions to handle function variables returning long and modify
> |> the compiler to use these in the correct instances instead.  As
> |> always, the implementation is much easier than the conception of the
> |> proper solution.  Comments most welcome.
> 
> The only proper solution is to make all functions use the same signature,
> and cast the return value at the call site.  Otherwise you will get
> problems on other architectures as well.
> 
> Andreas.
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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