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From: cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Subject: [TUHS] So now that the source is finally out...
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:18:31 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200201251918.LAA23410@chiton.ucsd.edu> (raw)

> From: "P.A.Osborne" <P.A.Osborne at ukc.ac.uk>
> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp at village.org>
> Cc: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] So now that the source is finally out...
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:16:37 +0000
> 
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:27:25AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > Real as in 286 or as in 8088 :-).  
> 
> 
> > gcc can compile K&R, but the language has evolved some since the v7
> > days.  =*, =+, etc became *=, +=, etc.  There are some other subtle
> > things too that I don't recall off the top of my head, but which vexed
> > the comp.lang.c news groups in the early 1980's.
> 
> That makes things a challenge.  Still the source of the kernel is
> around 10K lines IIRC and going through it in stages doesnt make life
> too painfull.

Doesn't one of the C beautifiers do that for you (rewrite =+ etc.)
Either GNU indent or Berkeley? cb.

    carl
-- 
        carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
                                                  clowenstein at ucsd.edu



             reply	other threads:[~2002-01-25 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-25 19:18 Carl Lowenstein [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-31  1:03 John Holden
2002-01-30  1:40 Ken Wellsch
2002-01-27 19:03 norman
2002-01-26 14:50 Ken Wellsch
2002-01-27 23:58 ` Greg Lehey
2002-01-31  0:29   ` Joerg Micheel
2002-01-24 18:39 Rob Becker
2002-01-25  9:42 ` P.A.Osborne
2002-01-25 10:27   ` M. Warner Losh
2002-01-25 11:16     ` P.A.Osborne
2002-01-25 15:19       ` Ephrem Hugh Bensusan
2002-01-25 15:52         ` M. Warner Losh
2002-01-25 21:08           ` David C. Jenner
2002-01-25 16:24       ` Wolfgang Rupp
2002-01-29  6:17         ` M. Warner Losh
2002-01-25 16:30       ` Wolfgang Rupp
2002-01-25 17:30   ` Jeffrey S. Sharp

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