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Moved to COFF.

On 2024-09-20 11:07, Dave Horsfall wrote (in part):
> 
> Giggle...  In a device driver I wrote for V6, I used the expression
> 
>      "0123"[n]
> 
> and the two programmers whom I thought were better than me had to ask me
> what it did...
> 
> -- Dave, brought up on PDP-11 Unix[*]
> 
> [*]
> I still remember the days of BOS/PICK/etc, and I staked my career on Unix.

Working on embedded systems, we often used constructs such as a[-4] to 
either read or modify stuff on the stack (for that particular 
compiler+processor only).

S.