Re: Compiling v1.8.5 on tru64 5.1b

[Neil Jerram]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> --- a/libguile/ChangeLog
>> +++ b/libguile/ChangeLog
>> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
>> +2008-05-12  Neil Jerram  <address@hidden>
>> +
>> +    * discouraged.c: Expand DEFFROM and DEFTO macros, to avoid
>> +    compiler warnings about excess semicolons.  (Reported by Didier
>> +    Godefroy.)
>
> Why didn't you just remove the trailing semicolons?  :-)

Because that messes up Emacs's C mode indentation.

I agree that that's an Emacs bug - as opposed to a bug with the code
as it was - but in the end I thought "hey, this is discouraged code,
so probably no one will ever touch it again, so does it really matter
whether we keep those DEFFROM and DEFTO macros or not?"

I spent a little time first, looking for a way of customizing
C mode to make it think that DEFFROM and DEFTO are always top-level;
but couldn't find one.

Regards,
     Neil