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Re: inline (Re: guile: going the way of DEATH)

"Jonathan R. Ferro" <jferro@corwin.ece.cmu.edu> writes:

> "Tel" == Telford Tendys <telford@triangle.triode.net.au> writes:
> Tel> PS: Out of curiosity... [1] how many C compilers really are
> Tel> currently compatible with guile? (don't say they all are, I won't
> Tel> believe you!)  [2] How many people are not using gcc? Are there
> Tel> good reasons to not use gcc or is it just what happened to be
> Tel> available at the time?
> 
> I can vouch for AIX xlC, which I use because GNU cc/ld cannot create
> shared libraries on AIX.  The guile release (1.2?) that I downloaded a
> month ago compiles cleanly under xlC (yay!), but SCWM uses additional
> gcc-isms which I regarded as being unnecessary for the amount of trouble
> they caused me.

For example?  Please let me know about non-portable C constructs in
Scwm.  (I don't doubt that there are some, I just want to get rid of
them if convenient.)

Thanks,
Greg