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From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich)
Subject: [TUHS] Line Terminators in Text Files [
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 20:28:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYL9WuknUFSuc0eVyQ7HXEuzTkqt9NcfRB+n05jSLaF-RA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2NEc+V9mb2HJwtC_dmNJY61=0mgDdrnk=O=DOANMBJrGw@mail.gmail.com>

with one exception, Clem. Forsyth's port of Ken's C compiler let you
allocate r14 and r15 for your own purposes. Hence in Plan 9 they were used
for 'current process' and 'current core'. As I understand it gcc allows
this too.

Every once in a while it's nice to have that level of control. We gave it
up when we got plan 9 running with gcc and clang and it was painful ...

ron
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-03 20:06 Clem Cole
2017-09-03 21:42 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-04 17:29 ` Paul Winalski
2017-09-04 18:34   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-04 20:28     ` ron minnich [this message]
2017-10-01 17:24   ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo

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