12 Apr
2018
12 Apr
'18
6:23 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 07:16:58AM -0500, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:45:07PM -0700, Chuck Guzis
via cctalk wrote:
> Looks pretty much like standard C until you get into the minutiae, such
> as "A character constant is 1 to 4 characters" and page 4-4 "Data
Types"
> (9 bit characters and 36 bit ints and 18 bit short ints).
...
"pretty straightforward"
Thanks. I needed a laugh.
As someone who tries to get/keep a zillion open source packages building
on FreeBSD, on non-x86 archs, I constantly refer to a piece of paper that
hangs on my wall. It was given to me many years ago at a conference, by
its author, Henry Spencer. An annotated version may be found here:
https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html
One of my favourites. Henry is an interesting guy but it has been years
since I've talked with him in person. He's also responsible for
"The Amazingly Workable Formatter".
Of course these days s/VAX/32-bit Linux distro/, but the principle still
holds.
Finally, for any remaining disbelievers, the most recent update of
FreeBSD's toolchain to include Clang version 6, regressed 419 port
builds -- on x86 alone.
*chuckle* A pointer isn't just an int anymore now. ;)
Amusingly years ago I worked for Computing Devices Canada that used some
CDC computers. I was told through a very reliable source that they
got Unix ported to the Cyber by SoftQuad based in Toronto. They were
well known as a 'troff house' at this time. I'm told they wrote a PDP-11
emulator for the Cyber and that's how they got Unix on the Cyber. ;)
mcl
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