Re: [Chicken-users] Constant for maximum number of arguments?

[felix winkelmann]

On 4/17/06, Reed Sheridan <address@hidden> wrote:
> I would like to be able to conditionalize code on the number of arguments
> that apply can hanlde in a particular installation of Chicken.  Is there a
> way to query the system about this, and if not, can there be?  I could just
> test for libffi (I think), but I'd prefer to have something robust that
> won't break if the limit ever changes.

Currently the limit is 120 vs 1000 with libffi installed (the latter
is a completely
arbitrary limit). You can assume that max-argc is 120 and 1000 if
(test-feature? 'libffi) is true (but I'll add a system-variable for this).


cheers,
felix