Re: libnettle/libhogweed WIP

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 12:09:17 +0200
> 
> On Jun 03 2017, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >> >   +  Lisp_Object object        = Fnth (make_number (0), spec);
> >> >   +  Lisp_Object start        = Fnth (make_number (1), spec);
> >> >   +  Lisp_Object end          = Fnth (make_number (2), spec);
> >> >   +  Lisp_Object coding_system = Fnth (make_number (3), spec);
> >> >   +  Lisp_Object noerror      = Fnth (make_number (4), spec);
> >> >
> >> > Isn't it simpler to use XCAR and XCDR here?
> >> 
> >> Wouldn't it be even simpler to just pass each argument separately?
> >
> > Maybe it would, but given the amount of procrastination about the form
> > of the arguments to these function, I'm not sure we want to re-argue
> > all that again.
> 
> I don't understand.  This is just an internal helper function.

It is used by all the other functions to get the input from the
arguments.  E.g., see gnutls-symmetric-encrypt: its arguments KEY, IV,
and INPUT are all of the form from which extract_data_from_object
extracts the individual values.