it was not cleaned up in the xinu bsd source. iirc, on a vax, it would coredump fairly reliably. i spent some time trying to figure out what the malfunction was, but never could.
i blamed nfs, since it was the convient thing to do, and started using byron's rc. the coding style was never a significant problem. if it were, i could have easily written a script to replace the odd #defines. - erik On Fri Apr 28 08:12:19 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. > >> > >> > >
