Re: [Swig-devel] Guile numeric handling

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

On 30/11/13 14:38, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Thursday 14 November 2013 07:16:58 William S Fulton wrote:
>
>  > On 11/11/13 08:47, Geert Janssens wrote:
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>  > > I have submitted a bug report for guile
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>  > > (http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15842). I'm not sure
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>  > > what more I can do for the integer test.
>
>  >
>
>  > Thanks for looking. I'd like a green on this test on OSX, so any
>
>  > chance you could modify the test and detect for Guile < 2.0 on osx
>
>  > and then skip the failing part of the test?
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>  >
>
> Within the runtime test, I can only check for Guile < 2.0 to skip the
> tests. I'm not aware of a way to check for the platform I'm running on
> and even less so for the compiler used to compile the wrapper code.
> (This issue is clang only).
>
How about trying utsname:sysname - 
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/System-Identification.html#System-Identification

> Is that sufficient for you if I disable the test for guile 1.8 ?
>
>  > Did you also get a chance to look at the overloading problems
>
>  > mentioned at the beginning of the thread?
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>  >
>
> I am looking at this, but it takes me a lot of time to understand how it
> all fits together. I finally found the number type maps and checks you
> were referring to in your original message.
>
> While studying them I found they are set up quite differently from how
> python is doing it (which I was using as a reference). Python is using
> %fragments, guile is not. So I'm studying that part now to see what's
> the best way forward for guile. It may take some time still as I find I
> only progress slowly on this level. (I have more experience with gui
> programming than with compiler level stuff).
>
> At least I have the runtime test for overload_numeric converted from
> python to guile, but it obviously still errors out because the type
> maps/checks are not fixed yet.
Okay, well, hopefully it is more interesting than GUI programming! If 
you need any pointers let us know.

William