On 2021-09-27 3:15 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
On 2021-09-27 10:07, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote (in part):
However, much of the "Linux" software is in fact POSIX software, and
can quite easily be ported between Linux and other *NIX-likes, such as
Solaris, macOS and the *BSD family.
I cannot agree. Many developers ensure that their software runs under
their particular distribution and then call it POSIX. Porting to UNIX
systems, such as Solaris or macOS, can be difficult and tedious. (Of
course, this is not a Linux issue.)
N.
POSIX requires a byte to be exactly 8 bits I read somewhere.
C99 C standard?
Great for ARM and INTEL, not so great for the 36 bit computers.
Ben.
