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 db -- - [email protected] [email protected] http://www.db.net/~db
