From: Bruce Ellis <brucee@chunder.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] am I nuts? does 8c support packed structs?
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 07:13:45 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41797809.9010105@chunder.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24a06b9b5cbf2406d50238e207618eaf@vitanuova.com>
hj weren't the most egregious dicks, but yeah it was a hack
(that saved months of work). just don't tell jon stewart
about them! i was particularly impressed by some protocol
code which not only used packed structs with glee but managed
to byte swap headers twice, as it had been endian ported
twice by different monkeys. babel-fish this!
brucee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 15:26 Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 15:30 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-22 15:49 ` C H Forsyth
2004-10-22 16:37 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 16:54 ` C H Forsyth
2004-10-22 21:13 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2004-10-22 21:00 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-22 16:51 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-22 17:27 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 17:20 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 17:28 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-22 17:30 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 17:29 ` jmk
2004-10-22 17:31 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 17:50 ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-22 18:32 ` C H Forsyth
2004-10-22 18:14 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-22 19:25 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-22 19:35 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 19:38 ` boyd, rounin
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