From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Announce: port
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:38:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC93C53.2D0DEF98@strakt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71652467.0204252013.3a3de607@posting.google.com>
"peter a. cejchan" wrote:
> > Native is actually a lot easier.
>
> Really? I mean 'native' should be w UTF, w/o stdio.h, etc. Or does
> native stdio.h treat char as wchar?
stdio is horrible. wchar's are a disaster.
use bio:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/bio
The compiler already understands about UTF and runes and so does
libc (obviously):
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/comp.html
Plan 9 is very close to unix, but it's not really. A lot of grief
gets caused by ape's heroic attempt to smash ANSI/POSIX into Plan 9.
It only gets really nasty when you have to port something that uses
the tty routines, sid's/pgrp's and signals -- most programs don't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-26 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-25 7:33 Peter A. Cejchan
2002-04-25 9:04 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-04-26 8:47 ` peter a. cejchan
2002-04-26 11:38 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2002-04-29 9:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-04-29 9:45 ` peter a. cejchan
2002-04-29 10:48 ` Boyd Roberts
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2002-04-25 7:55 forsyth
2002-04-25 7:22 forsyth
2002-04-26 8:47 ` peter a. cejchan
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