1 Feb
2017
1 Feb
'17
6:30 p.m.
From: Paul Koning
Yes, GCC should do that correctly. ... Dealing with
the output might be
a nuisance ... You may need some post-processing to cast the output
into the syntax that V6 "as" expects.
Actually, dealing with the _input_ is going to be a PITA (so my suggestion
was, in retrospect, not really a plausible one). The problem is that V6 is
written in an early dialect of C, one which I am sure would cause GCC would
toss its cookies, if fed to it.
Some things, like "a =+ b;" would be easy to fix; likewise "int a 1;"
instead
of "int a = 1;". But the Unix kernel is shot through with places where are
int is used as a structure pointer, etc, without benefit of a cast (casts
weren't invented until later). And a lot of stuff like that.
Noel