Hi! Ken Raeburn <raeb...@raeburn.org> writes:
> In the Guile case, I'm a tiny bit concerned about some of the pointer/ > int games played (e.g., I'm pretty sure C99 does not guarantee that > you can convert an arbitrary uintptr_t value to pointer and back and > be guaranteed of getting the original value... but I don't know of a > platform that actually violates that assumption), but only a tiny bit. Really? I think the whole purpose of `uintptr_t' is to allow that, isn't it? >> Anyway, in the meantime, we can conditionalize static initialization >> stuff from bdw-gc-static-alloc on STRICTNESS == 0 and keep everyone >> happy. >> >> Does that sound reasonable? > > Sure. Actually, STRICTNESS=1 is the default -- 0 makes SCM an > integer, 1 makes it a pointer to a struct, which adds a little more > type safety, and 2 makes it a union, which breaks casting, > initialization, etc. Oh, right. Thanks, Ludo'.
