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Re: Extending C with GC?

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Extending C with GC?
Date 2016-08-08 03:28 +0100
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 08/08/2016 01:24, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> <snip>
>>> It's funny how in a newsgroup where the emphasis is on writing
>>> portable code, that there are these massive dependencies on ONE
>>> specific OS, and no one thinks there is anything wrong with that.
>>
>> At first sight, this looks like a absurd things to say, but then I
>> remembered your skill as a political speech writer.  Take a few portable
>> tools (like make and a shell that run on many systems)
>
> Which 'make' runs on many systems? Which 'shell'?
>
> With 'make', every C compiler seems to have its own incompatible
> version (and an incompatible makefile syntax to go with it).
>
> How can you take something like 'Bash' and say it's portable? It
> doesn't run on Windows because Windows isn't Linux. It can be
> emulated, but then pretty much any program can be 'portable'.

Neat footwork!  I never said that one make or one specific shell is
either portable or runs on many systems (although some versions of make
do indeed run on many systems).  The tools are portable because they (in
some version or other) run on many systems.

>>> Not
>>> even with applications that are inherently portable such as GMP.
>>
>> If I had to guess, I would not guess that GMP is inherently portable.
>> And yes, a quick glance at the source shows directories with assembler
>> code for mips and 390 and goodness knows what else.
>>
>> If you can re-write any system dependencies in a portable subset of C
>> that works on all the target platforms, I'm sure the maintainer would
>> take your patches.  It seems a shame that you, as one of the few people
>> to see how it can be done better, does not help out.
>
> I have my own big integer library.

Ah, so you're OK then.

<snip>
> There must be a better way of organising distributions of such
> libraries that doesn't depend on such outdated

I agree.  There must be a better way, but it's hard to get right and
harder to get such things widely adopted.  Mainly because, your
experience notwithstanding, the current tools work.

> and non-portable tools.

No, they work because they are portable.

-- 
Ben.

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