From: nevin@eviloverlord.com (Nevin Liber)
Subject: [TUHS] C declarations.
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 21:00:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGg_6+P6uxsv5zwwAAqhw_H1q+REUFJPNE9aFg5xD39SqHFGdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170515004019.GJ29107@mcvoy.com>
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> I get that it is not clean and pure and doesn't match how other types work,
> I do see that, but I also see that their choice made a ton of sense at the
> time. And maybe still does. It's not the same as the other types because
> the other types are, typically, small. Arrays can be big, really big.
>
IIRC, you couldn't pass or return structs either. Also, no function
prototypes, so passing data of different sizes would have been a bit more
difficult.
--
Nevin ":-)" Liber <mailto:nevin at eviloverlord.com> +1-847-691-1404
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2017-05-11 21:49 Ron Natalie
2017-05-11 22:01 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-05-11 23:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-11 22:03 ` David Arnold
2017-05-11 22:32 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-11 22:41 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-13 1:24 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-13 2:45 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-13 12:20 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-13 12:35 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-05-13 12:42 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-13 15:36 ` Stephen Kitt
2017-05-14 1:59 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-05-14 2:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-14 4:24 ` Bakul Shah
2017-05-14 6:12 ` Steve Johnson
2017-05-14 6:48 ` Bakul Shah
2017-05-14 23:06 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-14 23:34 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-05-15 0:14 ` Dan Cross
2017-05-15 0:23 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-15 3:43 ` Random832
2017-05-15 0:40 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-15 2:00 ` Nevin Liber [this message]
2017-05-15 10:21 ` Tony Finch
2017-05-15 4:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-15 4:54 ` Bakul Shah
2017-05-15 5:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-15 12:58 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-15 16:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-15 19:00 ` [TUHS] cdecl (Re: " Bakul Shah
2017-05-15 22:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-13 13:46 ` [TUHS] " Hellwig Geisse
2017-05-13 19:08 ` Random832
2017-05-13 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-14 14:48 ` Nemo
2017-05-13 19:05 ` Random832
2017-05-14 13:14 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-05-12 0:15 ` Bakul Shah
2017-05-12 2:41 ` Theo Pavlidis
2017-05-12 14:04 Richard Tobin
2017-05-13 23:11 Richard Tobin
2017-05-15 6:46 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-05-14 14:11 Doug McIlroy
2017-05-14 14:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-05-15 18:47 Steve Johnson
2017-05-15 19:54 ` Bakul Shah
2017-05-16 7:25 ` George Ross
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