[sicsh-develop] Re: Patch for sic-1.0b (common-h.in in sic/)

[Gary V. V. <gv...@te...>]

On Wednesday 18 April 2001  6:17 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,

Salut Guillaume!

> I'm very interesting by this project.

Great.  It's good to hear from you.

> So, I am reading the source to understand.
> If you have any docs, I will be happy to read it (I have already look
> at the autotools doc).

Actually, I started the project as a model solution for application of the 
autotools to a GNU style project layout, and to form the backbone of `GNU 
Autoconf, Automake and Libtool' from New Riders publishing.  You can read it 
online at http://sources.redhat.com/autobook, and it walks through the 
reasoning behind much of the code.  I'd be happy to answer any questions you 
have, especially if they reveal gaps in my reasoning behind the narrative in 
the related chapters in the Goat Book.

Eventually, I hope to make Sic useable as a language prototyper.  Currently I 
am working on a new lexical analyser which rebuilds an internal recogniser 
DFA on the fly as new tokens are added by runtime modules.  I also have some 
ideas about adding a byte compiler to speed up the back end.  You would be 
very welcome to join in development of these or other areas that interest you.

> Here a very little patch which is a simple macro for not cast malloc
> functions in C, and do it in C++.

Is it bad to cast in C++ like this?  (I am quite new to C++).  I have seen 
some projects use something similar but with the expansion of the macro being 
`static_cast(type)' in C++.  What do you think?

> I know it a detail. Do what you want with it.
> I often use it.

I have a bunch of changes which show the direction I am planning to take, but 
they are not quite complete enough to commit to CVS -- I am busy trying to 
release libtool-1.4, and m4-1.5, and with my new book so I haven't had time 
to polish this up yet.

I can mail you a tarball if you like.

Cheers,
	Gary.
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