1 Feb
2012
1 Feb
'12
4:09 p.m.
On Feb 1, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 01/02/12 4:00 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
ARM?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
Reading this very interesting thread I got the malevolent idea to
implement a compliant C compiler which is as different from every other
as possible. Perhaps also for a fictional machine that also differs in
many ways from existing machines.
Before the turn of the millennium this would have been redundant, as the differences
between architectures and vendor compilers in that heterogeneous area were *quite*
sufficient for portability proofs and disproofs. Look at the list of architectures
supported by, say, Mathematica in 1990 or 1995.
Of course, some still wrote code as if "all the world's VAX," followed by
"all the world's a SPARC," and of course we all know what the world is
now...