is there any word processing software for the pdp11?

[Roe Peterson]

> On Dec 2, 2014, at 11:08 AM, Jon Elson <elson at pico-systems.com> wrote:
>  still discovering new ways that
> C code that looks perfectly correct can screw up horribly.  Last one was
> yesterday.
> 
> Boiling it down, we had :
> 
> long long int A;
> int B;
> A = B << 32;
> 
> This means that some field of B gets shifted to the right by 32 bits, and
> fit into the upper 32-bits of A.
> 
> Now, any decent compiler should either extend B to the length of A, or
> as the C rules specify, NOT extend B, and therefor ought to warn you
> that it is losing significant bits.  No warning, no extending the variable
> before shifting the bits off the end of the word.  So, A always gets
> a zero!  UGH!  Stupid!  I could almost write a book of these sorts
> of gotchas.

Hmm.  What C compiler did this, on what distro?  I'm pretty sure that this throws a compiler warning in gcc with -Wall...


> 
> Jon