[Ecls-list] SSE error in build

[Alexander Gavrilov]

> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov at gmail.com>wrote:
> > As an alternative, if there is a way to fuse the constant with
> > the unboxing operation, the unboxed value can probably be represented
> > as an expression using a couple of C intrinsic functions.
> >
> 
> ... this might be a better solution. ECL currently provides various hooks
> for inlining functions. One I like quite much is the use of compiler macros.
> You could replace current sse compilations with compiler macros that inline
> the constants as C expressions.

I've implemented a c-inline based representation for SSE constants
(code inspired by the optimizable constants feature). The only downside
I see is that if the constant happens to actually be used in boxed form
(e.g. in a macro or something), it will likely be boxed every time
it is evaluated instead of once.

Patch attached, together with two other minor tweaks.

Alexander

P.S. When I was writing that static constant code I was still trying
     hard not to use the cast intrinsics. Now that I'm already using
     them, there is no point in avoiding them only for the constants.
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