Re: PDUMP questions
[I still consider the portability argument as uninteresting because
not happening on any of the architectures we support, nor likely to
happen in the future, but...]
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 03:24:07PM -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote:
Pretend you're going to delete a member from a Lisp Object type
struct. You do a global grep for the member name, and remove those.
And then you get strange crashes because you didn't change a `6' to a
`5'.
That reason is a very good one, to which I completely agree. The
slots case is protected against that, btw.
However, don't consider that you have to change this. There are
lots
of real bugs to fix. But I might, whenever I hack on this. I
assume I have your permission.
You do.
OG.