bug#22366: Chicken Scheme release tarballs ship non-source C code

2021-08-17 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi, That's a valid point, David. I've created http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1776 for the issue you pointed out. As far as I can tell, it's a tricky issue. Regarding "my understanding was that the Chicken developers do not care", and speaking for myself, I think that's a misunderstanding. Pleas

bug#22366: Chicken Scheme release tarballs ship non-source C code

2016-01-13 Thread Thompson, David
Because Chicken Scheme's compiler is self-hosting, and because it compiles to C as an intermediate form, the maintainers circumvented the bootstrapping problem by shipping generated C code for the compiler. Many *.c files feature a comment that starts like this: Generated from optimizer.scm b