From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <790d46fb49d0b5be9d9300797ec1e698@coraid.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] too good to pass up (SRB Comments) From: Brantley Coile Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:10:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 49f091b4-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 That was really John Mashy's fault, as I understand it. He suggested it to SRB. I had to deal with it when I ported V7 to the 68K. Too bad every processor wasn't as clean in this reguard as the PDP-11. For those who might not have heard of this, SRB caught segfault signals, allocated more memory and just returned. The instruction that caused the segfault would restart. It was an automatic memory allocator. Problem was that not all processors could pull off this sort of stunt. Geoff cleaned this up years ago. > not even his allocator? > > - erik > > On Fri Apr 28 08:02:29 CDT 2006, brantley@coraid.com wrote: >> > Not that I'm defending writing C as >> > though it were Algol 68... >> >> I kind of liked it after the initial shock. >> Even inspired the Obfuscated C Contest. >> I don't think SRB's code was obfuscated, though. >> >>