Re: [Sbcl-devel] More host's gensyms

[Christophe R. <cs...@ca...>]

Manuel Giraud <ma...@le...> writes:

> Christophe Rhodes <cs...@ca...> writes:
>
>> I favour trying to fix most of the issues to get us to a baseline of
>> (ideally) all xc files equal between host compilers, or at least a small
>> number of known not-equal ones, and then making systematic changes like
>> this.  It's just too easy to regress otherwise.  Once we're done or
>> close to done, it might be more obvious which of the cl/xc gensyms is
>> most useful.
>
> Ok, I'll try this step by step approach then. The gensym shadowing looks
> promising though: just by adding "GENSYM" to *shadows* in
> set-up-cold-packages, sbcl/clisp goes from 97 different files to 44 and
> sbcl/ecl goes from 115 different files to 88. But I guess that this kind
> of modifications needs heavy testing.

Well!  That is quite a big difference.  Is it a strict subset, or do any
files start picking up differences that didn't before?

Cheers,

Christophe