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.
next prev parent 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
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2005-02-02 0:37 [9fans] Brdline arisawa
2005-02-02 1:06 ` Russ Cox
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