2 Jan
2008
2 Jan
'08
2:44 p.m.
Fred Cisin writes:
Well, I'd wager that Microsoft must have at least partially succeeded at
producing portable C code, since over the course of NT history it's run on
x86, MIPS, Alpha, PPC, Amd64 and Itanium platforms. (I even have a build of
a full 64-bit version of Whistler for the Alpha lying around...) NT has a
pretty decent hardware abstraction layer.
Then again all of us here at MICROS~1 (where we love our 8.3 filenames and
it's still 1995) are stooges so it must have been Dave Cutler who did all
that for us :).
Well, back to stealing code from other companies...
- Josh
> When the
MICROS~1 stooge told me that NT was "all portable C code", he got
> offended when I told him that THAT is an oxymoron.
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Bert Thomas wrote:
I'm confused. Are you saying that it is
impossible to write portable C code?
It is certainly POSSIBLE, particularly if you accept conditional
compilation in the definition.
Many application programs can be quite portable at a source code level.
But, there are very few people around who can do that at an OS level.