From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael_davidson@pacbell.net (Michael Davidson) Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [TUHS] Oldest Unix source code still in modern systems In-Reply-To: <9F28D643-765D-4A49-B6B5-61A293DA936F@ieee.org> Message-ID: <1337616921.5781.YahooMailClassic@web184718.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> --- On Mon, 5/21/12, Armando Stettner wrote: I would have suspected the oldest source code still existing in systems would be along the lines /* * you are not expected to understand this. */ That would certainly still be appropriate for the Linux context switch code which, last time I looked, was a horrible mess of gcc "asm" constructs glued together with C preprocessor macros. The comment that I miss most, however, is: /*  * printf should not be used for chit chat  */ md -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: