bug#15880: Compute C declarations for DEFSYMs automatically.

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:33:53 -0800
>> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>> CC: rgm@gnu.org, 15880@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > Could we instead just keep the previous semantics of XIL and XLI,
>> > please?  They are used in a few places outside lisp.h, so now all of
>> > those places need to be audited and most probably changed.  Why isn't
>> > it better to change the implementation of just 2 macros instead?
>> 
>> XIL and XLI haven't changed, and have the same semantics as before: they 
>> convert 
>> between Lisp_Object and EMACS_INT without altering the bits (i.e., they are 
>> no-ops at the machine level).
>
> That's not what their previous semantics was.  They converted between
> a Lisp integer and EMACS_INT.

No, that's called XINT.

Andreas.

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