Re: Diff file for 3.1.6-test-2 available

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> > >   - complist could be made to work better with dynamic loading systems
> > >     that don't make symbols in other dynamic modules visible
> > 
> > Hm, I just had a look at this. If I've counted correctly, there are 38 
> > symbols used. Four of them could reasonably be put into minfo. But
> > adding 34 pointer variables just to support SunOS 4? And then: other
> > modules may rely (now or in the future) on the symbols of other
> > modules on which they depend anyway (after all this is one of the
> > reasons for the dependency system, isn't it?).
> 
> You mean function symbols?  Variable symbols are easy, the definition can
> just be shifted.  For the rest, if it can't be simplified it should
> probably be left.  I was wondering about the possibility of defining the
> pointer to the list of thingies in comp1, and calling any of those via the
> list.  But that doesn't seem to cover very many.

Oops, right. It's 18 functions, 4 widgets (-functions), and 16
variables. Hm.

> However, if it's not going to work there's no point compiling complist.
> There needs to be a warning much earlier on, or we need to suggest building
> zle into the shell.

I was thinking about the latter -- for SunOS 4.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de