These functions are complicated because they need to be marked
"noreturn" for the compiler. There are several fundamentally
incompatible ways of doing that. Since we have only a few "noreturn"
functions, let's just list all of those in one header file of which
there is a completely different version for each compiler.
I planned to put just the file system routines into these files, but
there are starting to be so many of them that I don't want to
duplicate the same set for networking, subprocesses etc.
Previously the boot image was kept in the separate file "flisp.boot".
This caused all kinds of problems, as bootstrapping is wont to do. The
biggest problem was finding a portable and convenient pathname for it.
Instead of dealing with all that stuff about how to find the file,
just store the image in a huge C string constant that goes into the
main executable. This necessitates adding a C-string hex dumper into
the Lisp system, and making build.sh slightly more complicated, but
that's a small price to pay for not having to carry a separate file
everywhere we go. Also, flmain.c is a lot simpler now and we don't
have to play around with symlinks.
This implies that OS names have changed. Unix-like OS names are now
capitalized. "macos" is now "Darwin". Windows is now all-lowecase "windows".
"win32" is gone. "win64" was not used in the original code despite a reference
to it.
Nowadays compilers have good optimizers that know when to inline static
functions depending on the user's chosen optimization level (and speed vs size
optimization). We don't need to annotate functions manually.
For number types, we rely on classic C types (char, short, int, long) to be
the correct sizes. For precise bit widths, use standard intN_t and uintN_t.
For size_t, just use system size_t.
Lassi Kortela