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From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Brdline
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:24:18 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190601160624s11c1756bx82d7dcafb743298e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15577233041e4238e7a9c8e58d670ddd@terzarima.net>

i believe that is why limbo just has "byte" which is unsigned,
no options.  get's those bugs out before they get in.

brucee

On 1/17/06, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> > What about Brdstr? it seems to me a superset of Brdline and it returns
> > a char *....
>
> perhaps it was added later and they didn't think of that?
> i'm not sure it makes a big difference.
> the whole char*/uchar* interaction is bad though.
> uchar* is important to ensure no sign-extension,
> but it isn't compatible with the str* functions, and explicit casts
> can mask mistakes.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-16 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-16 11:35 Gorka guardiola
2006-01-16 12:30 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-16 13:27   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-16 13:37     ` Gorka guardiola
2006-01-16 13:57       ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-16 14:24         ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2006-01-17  0:56         ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-17  1:35           ` Russ Cox
2006-01-17  1:42             ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-17  1:47               ` Russ Cox
2006-01-17 10:01               ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-17 16:45                 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-18  5:38                   ` Simon Williams
2006-01-18  5:49                     ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-18  5:54                     ` Paul Lalonde
2006-01-18  6:11                       ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-18 14:25                         ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-18 15:26                           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-18 23:06                             ` Adrian Tritschler
2006-01-19  1:20                               ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-18 15:45                         ` Paul Lalonde
2006-01-18 16:41                           ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-18 16:47                           ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-01-18 16:57                             ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-18 17:37                               ` David Leimbach
2006-01-18 17:50                                 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-18 18:00                               ` Sape Mullender
2006-01-18 17:01                             ` Paul Lalonde
2006-01-18 17:30                               ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-18 18:04                               ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-01-18 20:22                                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-18 20:31                                   ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-01-18 23:01                                     ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-18 22:56                                   ` Joel Salomon
2006-01-18 15:25                       ` Brantley Coile
2006-01-18 16:35                         ` Paul Lalonde
2006-01-17  9:59             ` [9fans] ulong Charles Forsyth
2006-01-17 12:30               ` Russ Cox
2006-01-17 16:55                 ` Bruce Ellis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-02  0:37 [9fans] Brdline arisawa
2005-02-02  1:06 ` Russ Cox

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