New VMMaker/svn release

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Thu Dec 29 22:01:02 UTC 2005


On 29-Dec-05, at 1:37 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> I vote for a) - I doubt anybody would ever bother to remember that  
> there are two variants (I sure wouldn't ;-) And there might be  
> reasons to request alias resolution for other purposes too.

Problem is that you *have* to remember there are two variants in any  
hopefully-portable code. Stupid, eh? Actually if we had the 4-arg  
function it would serve as a constant reminder of that so perhaps  
doing that and no reality-hiding-convenience macros would be best.


tim
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