That was really John Mashy's fault, as I understand it. He suggested it to SRB. I had to deal with it when I ported V7 to the 68K. Too bad every processor wasn't as clean in this reguard as the PDP-11.
For those who might not have heard of this, SRB caught segfault signals, allocated more memory and just returned. The instruction that caused the segfault would restart. It was an automatic memory allocator. Problem was that not all processors could pull off this sort of stunt. Geoff cleaned this up years ago. > not even his allocator? > > - erik > > On Fri Apr 28 08:02:29 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Not that I'm defending writing C as >> > though it were Algol 68... >> >> I kind of liked it after the initial shock. >> Even inspired the Obfuscated C Contest. >> I don't think SRB's code was obfuscated, though. >> >>
