From: Stuff Received <stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca>
To: COFF <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Maximum Array Sizes in 16 bit C
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:56:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6386cb3-f8ec-bd17-9d0a-e7f5272dd12b@riddermarkfarm.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11d46ab4-b90c-83fe-131a-ee399eebf342@horsfall.org>
Moved to COFF.
On 2024-09-20 11:07, Dave Horsfall wrote (in part):
>
> Giggle... In a device driver I wrote for V6, I used the expression
>
> "0123"[n]
>
> and the two programmers whom I thought were better than me had to ask me
> what it did...
>
> -- Dave, brought up on PDP-11 Unix[*]
>
> [*]
> I still remember the days of BOS/PICK/etc, and I staked my career on Unix.
Working on embedded systems, we often used constructs such as a[-4] to
either read or modify stuff on the stack (for that particular
compiler+processor only).
S.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-20 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-18 23:51 Douglas McIlroy
2024-09-18 23:57 ` Henry Bent
2024-09-19 13:13 ` Rich Salz
2024-09-20 13:33 ` Paul Winalski
2024-09-20 15:07 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-09-20 15:30 ` Larry McVoy
2024-09-20 15:56 ` Stuff Received [this message]
2024-09-20 16:14 ` Dan Cross
2024-09-20 17:11 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-09-20 20:16 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-09-20 20:58 ` Warner Losh
2024-09-20 21:18 ` Rob Pike
2024-09-20 22:04 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-09-20 22:19 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-09-20 15:26 ` Rich Salz
2024-09-20 19:40 ` Leah Neukirchen
2024-09-20 15:24 Douglas McIlroy
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