On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:54:49AM -0700, Robert Spier wrote: > > > #define PARROT_str_local(d) \ > > STRING * d = NULL; \ > > frame frame_##d; \ > > int dummy_##d = ( \ > > (frame_##d.ptr = &d), \ > > (frame_##d.next = stack_top), \ > > (stack_top = &frame_##d), \ > > 0); > > This triggers the perl5 macro-iitis alarm. > > Please don't do this :) > > If you need to do things like that, then maybe we need to develop our > own function inliner -- there will still be debugging issues with the > optimizer, but less, if it looks like this: [...]
What are the debugging issues you mention? Note that this macro will never fail: there is no pointer deferencing, no memory allocation, ... -- Jerome
