From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13318 invoked from network); 20 Jul 1999 12:20:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Jul 1999 12:20:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 7398 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 1999 12:20:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7222 Received: (qmail 7391 invoked from network); 20 Jul 1999 12:20:18 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:20:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199907201220.OAA02076@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Peter Stephenson's message of Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:38:21 +0200 Subject: Re: Diff file for 3.1.6-test-2 available 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 -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de