This feature was controlled by the compilation flag `OPDISP`
which would enable some bits of assembler on the x86 (ISC or DOS)
or some other specialized code on SPARC. On SPARC hardware, there
was a special compilation process that would preprocess the code
and generate dispatch tables.
We do this now when this feature is enabled using gcc's computed
gotos feature. This is available in clang and some other compilers.
Notably, it isn't present in Visual Studio.
This doesn't decrease our portability at all as this feature is
optional and it replaces specialized assembler code with C using
compiler extensions (making it cross-platform).
In doing this, we've removed a bunch of related code, however,
it is likely that other pieces yet remain and will be removed
in subsequent commits as we clean things up and refine them.
This feature remains disabled by default for now.
This is the old way that releases were built and isn't relevant
today. It made a variety of assumptions about how things were
linked and allowed for the user to re-link an executable, but
that isn't something we need to do any longer.
This doesn't yet remove the checksum, ldechecksum, and related
scripts.
Add standardized options for Oracle Developer Studio C compiler (aka SunPro C)
Using -funsigned-char causes the Oracle Developer Studio C compiler typedefs for
int8_t to become unsigned (uint8_t) rather than signed, with no warning or
other indication that this has happened.
This removes SYSVSIGNALS as we're always and only using POSIX
signals now.
Some platform differences have been papered over. We used to
only ignore SIGPIPE when using BSD signals, but we now ignore
it all the time.
While the SIGFPE code will now compile, it hasn't been updated
to work on modern OSes fully yet as it will need to enable
the correct FP exceptions.
* Always follow NEW_STORAGE code paths.
This removes the code paths for the pre-NEW_STORAGE code.
* Remove NEW_STORAGE from build system.
The code no longer refers to `NEW_STORAGE`, so we can remove
this from the build system.
* Move clang/gcc options into makefile-header.
This puts all of the shared options into a single place so that
we can easily update it.
* Add -fwrapv to the clang/gcc command lines.
This is a step along the way to fixing interlisp/medley#90.
Enabling `-fwrapv` will let overflow checks that rely upon undefined
behavior to work correctly. Without this, with modern versions of
clang and gcc, the overflow checks in the C code are eliminated
by the compiler, resulting in incorrect behavior on the part of
Maiko.
See the linked bug for details and discussion.
Hopefully, this usage of `-fwrapv` will go away once we're using
the correct compiler builtins to detect and handle overflow
correctly.
CLX is a Common Lisp implementation of the X client library.
It has some code in C, which was present here as `src/socket.c`
and `src/socdvr.c`, exposed via opcodes in `src/subr.c`. This code
had been removed (with prejudice apparently) by commenting out
the code in `src/subr.c` with `#if NEVER`.
This code would've been used by the Medley system images, but
that code doesn't appear to be present. (There may or may not
be something related in `XMAS` in the Medley repository.)
The FSERROR define is on all the time now. It was not controlling
all of the functionality, with many places setting Lisp_errnno
outside of the code controlled by the define.
