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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] speaking of early C compilers
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:34:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5BDD9EB6-4F00-4C28-BC7F-4A264996A625@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <255EF9E2-2BA3-4928-8664-7C7B08FB48D4@coraid.com>

Yep, the kernel was littered with funky memory constants using ->  to point at various registers.   Probably the most ubuiqtous was
#define PS 0177776
struct { 
    int integ;
};

yielding the PS->integ access to the Processor Status Register.





  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-27 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-27 10:32 Jason Stevens
2014-10-27 13:03 ` Brantley Coile
2014-10-27 13:34   ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2014-10-27 13:40     ` random832
2014-10-27 14:04       ` Clem Cole
2014-10-27 15:04       ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-27 17:09 ` scj
2014-10-27 20:35   ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-27 21:34     ` Clem Cole
2014-10-28  1:09       ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-28  2:06         ` Clem Cole
2014-10-28 12:22           ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-28 12:42             ` Clem Cole
2014-10-28 13:03               ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-28 22:02                 ` John Cowan
2014-10-27 13:46 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-27 13:54 Jason Stevens
2014-10-27 14:48 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-27 15:09 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-27 15:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-27 16:52 ` Dan Cross
2014-10-27 15:48 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-27 16:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-28  0:16   ` John Cowan
2014-10-27 16:50 Norman Wilson
2014-10-27 18:16 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2014-10-28  1:55 Jason Stevens
2014-10-28 12:52 ` Ronald Natalie

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