Hi, Bernd's message about Trigraphs:
At GMD we used the IBM C compiler in a DFN-project for an MVS X.400 system, including an ASN tool an X.400 encode/decode from retix. in 1987. "user agent" was based on UCLA/MAIL). The Retix software was delivered as a unix tar file on tape (more than once through the project). Well, I had to get the files out of the tar into some PDSes, modify the sources (the #includes), making trigraphs. By hand? Hundreds of files. Definitively not. A rather small SPITBOL Was fun.
In a SHARE presentation, one of the C project presented how they implemented strcmp using CLC. Could you get a 0C4 if a short string near the end of page compared to a larger constant? Well, unlikely, no answer, no way to know whether there were guard pages. No problem in real life anyway.
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