From: William Josephson <nospmjkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] how to avoid a memset() optimization
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:48:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021114164818.GA86920@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DD35A06.7090802@null.net>
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:21:56AM +0000, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> William K. Josephson wrote:
> >It gets worse: "you must use foo_uint32_t because we don't want
> >to get burned if the size of the standard types change". The
> >amount of time I wasted yesterday all because people insist using
> >poorly thought out additions to the language, header files, and
> >libraries is not to be believed. They mumble about "simplicity"
> >and then insist on using the worst voodoo in C99 :-)
>
> There is no foo_* in Standard C.
You are completely missing the point.
> to do so. How much code have you had to port where it
> was assumed that long was 32 bits, or 4 chars, or that
> short was aliasable to an array of 2 chars? We had the
> dickens of a time getting such code fixed to work on
> 64-bit platforms.
Plenty; that's not the point.
> If you're referring to such things as off_t needing to
> be enlarged as a system evolves, applications don't need
> to use anything other than off_t at the source level.
No again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-14 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-13 14:40 C H Forsyth
2002-11-13 15:54 ` rob pike
2002-11-13 16:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-11-13 16:32 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2002-11-14 10:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-14 17:07 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2002-11-22 9:59 ` Clint Olsen
2002-11-13 16:56 ` William K. Josephson
2002-11-14 10:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-14 16:48 ` William Josephson [this message]
2002-11-14 10:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-14 14:46 ` Dan Cross
2002-11-14 16:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-14 18:31 ` Tad Hunt
2002-11-15 10:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-18 14:27 ` Aharon Robbins
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-06 10:47 nigel
2003-01-06 11:15 ` Geoff Collyer
2002-11-19 14:32 presotto
2002-11-20 7:24 ` Tomas
2002-11-20 16:38 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-19 8:21 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-11-18 21:36 Joel Salomon
2002-11-18 20:42 Andrew Simmons
2002-11-18 14:19 C H Forsyth
2002-11-15 1:56 Dennis Ritchie
2002-11-15 10:51 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-15 12:03 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-11-14 18:55 jmk
2002-11-14 22:23 ` Steve Kilbane
2002-11-14 18:17 presotto
2002-11-14 18:11 Joel Salomon
2002-11-14 18:26 ` William Josephson
2002-11-14 17:44 rog
2002-11-15 10:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-14 17:28 Russ Cox
2002-11-14 16:47 presotto
2002-11-15 10:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-15 16:51 ` William Josephson
2002-11-18 10:38 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-18 12:34 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2002-11-19 7:38 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2002-11-20 9:47 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-21 20:55 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2002-11-22 9:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-01-06 10:18 ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-01-06 15:42 ` Sam
2003-01-06 15:49 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-06 15:58 ` David Presotto
2003-01-06 16:02 ` Sam
[not found] <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
2002-11-14 15:38 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-11-14 16:24 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-11-14 6:53 Russ Cox
2002-11-14 10:22 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-14 13:20 ` Sam
2002-11-14 15:20 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-11-14 15:26 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-11-14 15:34 ` plan9
2002-11-14 15:59 ` Sam
2002-11-14 18:57 ` Steve Kilbane
2002-11-15 10:51 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-14 15:50 ` Dan Cross
2002-11-14 17:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-14 18:51 ` Dan Cross
2002-11-14 15:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-19 7:20 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2002-11-14 2:48 Dennis Ritchie
2002-11-14 4:23 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2002-11-13 18:58 Rob `Commander' Pike
2002-11-13 14:14 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-11-13 13:55 rog
2002-11-13 13:38 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-11-13 16:25 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-11-13 10:43 C H Forsyth
2002-11-14 10:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-13 6:52 Geoff Collyer
2002-11-13 10:13 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-11-13 6:34 Andrew Simmons
2002-11-13 6:43 ` Doc Shipley
2002-11-13 1:47 Russ Cox
2002-11-13 10:16 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-14 1:46 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2002-11-14 1:52 ` William Josephson
2002-11-14 6:42 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2002-11-13 0:31 Russ Cox
2002-11-13 1:26 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2002-11-13 10:15 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-14 1:42 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2002-11-13 10:15 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-13 0:20 presotto
2002-11-12 22:42 Roman V. Shaposhnick
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