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Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1351
You didn't say that, but anyway, C provides a generic data pointer type that you should use for that. There is an...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1352
Douglas A. Gwyn Then read it it again. Because that is what I said. Yeah, I know, exactly two platforms took advantage of...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1353
Morten Reistad took some long flights a few years ago. each seat had its own...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1354
Steve O'Hara-Smith Oh ... it would take me a while to wade through the stuff again. Let...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1355
CBFalconer If you were to pack the currently buttigned Unicode code points and remove the private data areas...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1356
snip lots of background ... Oh well, as a computer architect I don't need all the details, just the minimum size required please maam. Looks as if 24...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1357
At the moment, I'm using a hypothesis that the guy is a Billyboy. So far, his posts have matched this hidden agenda. How does the biz untrain this 8-bit chunk bias? (Chunk is...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1358
and for total topic drift ... when we were doing the terminal controller clone using interdata-3 for doing both terminal type identification and terminal speed determination ... our first transfer of data to mainframe memory appeared...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1359
No, in fact earlier VT terminals (VT-52 for example) had a specific terminal ID query and response...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1360
rpl There is no simple answer. The basic principle is that computers process data as *aggregations* of bits all at the same...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1361
glen herrmannsfeldt i worked at a place around 1980 that had 180 terminals on 110 baud lines . i forget what the terminals were called...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1362
2741 was beefed up selectronic typewriter (golf-ball) ... it was in self-contained desk high package .... basically something like a computer table ... with the typewriter embedded in the table. it...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1363
Roger Schlafly You miss the point. This isn't about 36-bit vs. the world, it's about the fact that the computer industry creates itself new...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1364
Apologies if this is a duplicate; the original seems to have vanished. "Peter Flbutt" wrote ... Agreed. I've only been in...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1365
Peter Flbutt" wrote ... Agreed. I've only been in programming since the late '60s, so I've been...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1366
says... I suspect that they do not KNOW there is any prior art to look at, rather than them ignoring it intentionally. At...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1367
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:26:52 +0000 (UTC) in alt.folklore.computers, Your focus seems to be maths-crypto, his maths-stats, correct? You both know how to program and probably are pedagogically correct in your...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1368
Alan Balmer I do recall someone who impugned his teaching. Here is a quote from you earlier: ``I really hope that you are teaching...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1369
D. J. Bernstein That is the most absurd thing DJB has said yet. Who (besides him) even *thinks* that buffer overruns have anything to do with sofware portability...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1370
says... If you wanted to stir the pot, I think you found the way... You seem to think that "real...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1371
says... Strange, I've been working on home automation stuff lately, and a lot of these devices are being connected to the internet. When your home, it's lighting, temperature and security settings can be...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1372
Brian Inglis Both at home and at the office, I run a typical "small business" server and a gagle of Windows desktops around them. And in both places, I find a server compromised every few...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1373
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:50:03 GMT, Randy Howard Berkeley is not one of our customers (yet), but I'm currently working for...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1374
says... I think the problem is obvious from your response. I don't think you actually bothered to look it up as I suggested. I would expect some people to make...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1375
On the contrary; the software industry I see has a huge dominance of process control and embedded applications. Hint...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1376
I think, as is typical in human nature, the reaction to the criticism has been overdone. We went...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1377
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 05:58:16 -0800, Tom Linden They usually do. Our experience in Ireland would...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1378
says... Technically he was correct, and the good news it is very easy to achieve...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1379
Randy Howard It's only *wrong* if your requirements (explicit or implicit) require you to be portable...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1380
says... And how many times are apps, which originally were only going to run on one platform ported later to some unforeseen architecture? I have seen this same play three or four times now...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1381
To this I don't totally agree. In my experience, if some code needs 32-bit ints and cannot work with 36-bit ints, then this code is relying on the implicit "modulo...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1382
Randy Howard And sometimes that kind of decision is rational and makes economic sense. Let me give you an example. Suppose that it costs X to make your code portable to 36-bit ints, where...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1383
In my own crypto-related source code, I often include this: #if CHARBIT != 8 #error This code requires 8-bit bytes #endif This means that I...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1384
My wife and I both started to observe this problem about the same time, and that...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1385
I've tried to address this problem in situations where there was a certainty of good will...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1386
Yes, well ... allowing for other ways to make the kids think twice before doing something like that, I can find several (thin) volumes that are all of...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1387
Why did you choose the term "36-bit la-la land"? You start right off by insulting everyone with a reasonably long experience in the...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1388
Douglas A. Gwyn students saying ones-complement!'' I think you're all missing two important points here. 1. A box that runs 9-bit chars 1's compliments typically won't be...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1389
Hardly. Weren't you paying attention? It is not just 9-bit ones-complement architectures that DJB was dismissing, but *all* architectures other than one specific model. Easy != correct. It...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1390
David Wagner You're (intentionally?) missing the point. Most DSP software performs general-purpose functions in addition to array processing. Much C software is aimed at general-purpose functions that might or might not be...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1391
Patrick Scheible That's too generic for me. Let's talk about real-world probabilities. Is there anything else that is at all likely to fail, for real-world platforms, on...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1392
a) No two FOOs are exactly the same... *ever* b) Customers get justifiably annoyed when they ask you to build a custom system and you say "well let's...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1393
If the only thing that's changed is the values of input and output then yes I have a FOO sitting around. And if it's the same code I don't need to debug it do I...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1394
a PERFORM does a push, jump, (blahblahblah), pop, jump... guy *did* save code as measured by executable static memory...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1395
Douglas A. Gwyn) writes: By the same token, the wanton chopping up of a program into...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1396
So do I, when I can make it run better portably. Not this year, anyway. But a few years down the road, when another vendor makes...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1397
Charlie Gibbs A current language privates-size compebreastion floating around the langs part of usenet is to write a (very basic) word-counter for a text file. If I...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1398
it's called "Structured Programming" and the short version is it makes for ***much*** more maintainable code in applications programming. Instead of 10% of your time developing code and 90...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1399
At a very short-lived PPOE they never gave me any official buttignments, when I asked what to do my boss just...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1400
Hank Oredson ... snip ... I had a similar experience about a dozen years ago with a COBOL 68 system. That was the type without the ability to pbutt parameters, and nothing but global...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1401
Hank Oredson A slight modification of this should do it (it needs to open the output file after finishing the input reading). You will need ggets.c, which is available at...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1402
More like it doesn't look far enough ahead, which you sort of say in different words later on. fnewseek() fnewread() fnewwrite() fnewtell() etc. (Feel free to come up...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1403
Trevor L. Jackson, III I don't know. The extra complexity from coding in a way that will work even on platforms where bytes are 9 bits...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1404
David Wagner There is hardly ever a need to take special steps. If you need exactly 8-bit data types, use uint8t, not unsigned...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1405
David Wagner OK, I'll bite. Why do you think so? Is using "CHARBIT" so much more typing than...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1406
David Wagner All right, lets think about it. The unaware byte = 8 bits, ints = 32 bits programmer may well do something like: union foo { int intval; char bytes4; } convert; convert.intval = whatever; contravening about 18...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1407
David Wagner ... snip ... Most of the time the code shouldn't care about 9 vs 8 bit bytes etc. It will be reading...