Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM

2018-01-30 Thread Eric Chevalier
On 1/30/18 3:42 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On 2018-01-30, at 14:15:00, Jon Perryman wrote: FYI, Android is a modified Linux. I've heard that; how does that play with GPL? Android is open source... https://source.android.com

Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM

2018-01-28 Thread Eric Chevalier
On 1/28/18 2:31 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: "fstat() the image file to get its size" What if it isn't an image file, or any other kind of DASD file. Unix has other kinds of files for which there is no way to know the size a priori. Pedantically speaking, you're correct. However, I don't lose any

Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM

2018-01-28 Thread Eric Chevalier
On 1/28/18 12:35 AM, Paul Raulerson wrote: This is a funny area to compare though, since on most platforms, C file access is always a binary stream. The application pretty much defines the way the file is treated - byte by byte, record by record, block by block, buffer size by buffer size,