From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] the declaration of main()
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:42:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010426194237.43F56199DC@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
> No, that choice pretty much forced the existence of an APE.
> If the standard extern interfaces had been honored, Plan 9
> C could support both the native Plan 9 way of doing things
> *and* Standard C, without requiring any flags etc.
This is just bogus. The whole point of Plan 9 is that
everything has been rethought. What forced the existence
of an APE was the desire to compile and run some large legacy programs
without infecting the rest of the system with external
garbage. Changing the definition of main to return int
would not eliminate the benefits of an APE any more than
anarchy would eliminate the benefits of prisons.
Russ
next reply other threads:[~2001-04-26 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-26 19:42 Russ Cox [this message]
2001-04-26 20:32 ` Dan Cross
2001-04-27 13:07 ` [9fans] purpose of APE Howard Trickey
2001-04-26 22:03 ` [9fans] the declaration of main() Boyd Roberts
2001-04-27 9:13 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-30 12:05 rob pike
2001-04-30 10:44 forsyth
2001-04-28 18:44 forsyth
2001-04-30 9:24 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-28 17:57 forsyth
2001-04-28 22:28 ` Dan Cross
2001-04-30 9:25 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27 6:57 nemo
2001-04-26 20:58 forsyth
2001-04-27 9:13 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27 14:48 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-27 16:22 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27 18:24 ` William K. Josephson
2001-04-30 9:23 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27 19:38 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-28 15:54 ` Greg Hudson
2001-04-28 16:39 ` Dan Cross
2001-04-28 17:06 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-30 9:25 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-26 18:23 forsyth
2001-04-26 19:17 ` Mike Haertel
2001-04-26 23:50 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-27 14:41 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27 15:40 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-27 9:12 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-24 10:32 rog
2001-04-24 18:03 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-04-24 8:10 forsyth
2001-04-26 15:55 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-24 0:59 okamoto
2001-04-24 3:08 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-23 19:33 dmr
2001-04-23 11:09 forsyth
2001-04-23 11:31 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-24 9:02 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-24 12:09 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-26 16:05 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-26 18:12 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-26 23:55 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-24 17:43 ` Greg Hudson
2001-04-26 15:55 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-12 6:28 okamoto
2001-04-23 8:44 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-23 8:48 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-12 6:22 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2001-04-12 6:25 ` andrey mirtchovski
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