bug#18592: FFI should have portable access to ‘errno’

[tomas]

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On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:24:35AM +0800, Chaos Eternal wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:14 AM, Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Mark!
> > Thanks for all the advices.
> >
> > Here's the new patch according to your advices.
> > Include:
> > 1. Added new procedure pointer->procedure-with-errno with
> > #:return-errno?
> >
> > Question: Should we make #:return-errno? true in default? This would
> > make the name *-with-errno more reasonable. At present, it's false in
> > default.

Sorry for intervening from the peanut gallery, but if I understood Mark
correctly, he only was proposing to introduce a second function for the
C API (to keep backward compatibility at the linking-to-C level). At the
Guile source level, I guess all can be subsumed under one function.

regards
- -- tomás
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