[m-rev.] for review: deconstruct.named_arg for java

[Paul Bone]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 05:43:49PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Ian MacLarty wrote:
>> BTW is there anything holding up the release at the moment?
>
> Ideally, I wanted to improve the documentation in the user's guide for
> mmc --make, but it looks like I won't have time before I head overseas.
> (So, that can go into 10.04.1)
>
> In my view the remaining tasks for 10.04 are:
>
> * I want to sort out this issue with source distribution (bug #115)
>   that came up the other day.  (There is a workaround in place, but I am
>   currently testing a proper fix.)

The workaround will be fine for the current release.

> * Bug #153 needs to be looked at.

This should be easy.  I'll take a look.

> * I have a reference manual change that documents MR_word_to_float and
>   friends that nees to go in.  (I also have an addition to
>   samples/c_interface that provides a more thorough illustration of the C
>   data passing conventions.)
>
> * I think we really need some examples of how to use the Java and Erlang
>   interfaces, in samples/java_interface and samples/erlang_interface.

IMHO these two things can wait until the next release (October?)

> * zs is unhappy about the number of warnings that are generated by gcc
>   when compiling things in asm_fast.  (We should identify what is going
>   on here at least.)  (Someone suggested grepping the warnings out, but
>   I don't see how you can do that with mmc --make -- particularly on
>   systems that don't have grep!)

We don't actually need grep(1) to do this.  It's simply a matter of playing
with processes and pipes in C.

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