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Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1637
Anyway, you can always use the good old preprocessor to circumvent the problem. If you want an unsigned type with exactly 32 bits: * ================================================================= * #ifdef...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1638
Well, then the C standard does not agree with you about what "two's-complement" means. Since this is about a C program, and the documentation is there to help...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1639
Thomas lovein The mathematical function is defined for any length. The software API is limited to a gigabyte. I...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1640
I have an Alpha running Tru64 in my cube right now (along with several x86 boxes and an Opteron system, but only one x86 box...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1641
Chris Adams Great! Give me an account so I can do some testing. Maybe I'll even add tuned asm for that system. Does the...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1642
David Wagner Portability. Users want to be able to run the same software on another computer...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1643
Douglas A. Gwyn I couldn't find this file in my install of MSVC++ (which affects my Intel C++, of course), WATCOM...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1644
No standard header is "built into the language core". There *is* a standard header for specifying integer widths, actually two headers (one is in effect a superset...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1645
tries to build a workable kernel for 16-bit x86 processors, using code extracted from the full-blown Linux kernel. The ecological niches that ELKS tries...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1646
That was a distant secondary consideration if it was one at all. There was a general inclination to...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1647
CBFalconer You're confusing machine dependence with abstraction. Sure, there's lots of code that works fine with variable integer...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1648
Randy Howard Advantage of int64: machine-independent semantics---confidence that the int64 operations won't suddenly change behavior when they're moved to a new machine. Advantage of sizet...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1649
That's simply not true. int64 is not machine independent at all for use as a memory index-offset. For use...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1650
It's a silly argument, because nobody in their right mind would use sizet for counting something like that. That is...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1651
I intend to live for a long time and I do expect such a thing. It should happen when people turn holographic 3D movies into a...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1652
Thomas lovein You know what? You're starting to raise doubts in my mind about whether we can...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1654
No, they are just running the system below the capacity of the actual fiber and repeaters. They seem to use OC192 (10G) x 16 colours, and to only use one of the three available colour...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1655
Morten Reistad Ok, but Avogadro's number is clearly a floating point. Yeah, of course I agree. Even with Paul Rubin's correction to my table (though I disagree that...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1656
You can ? The French state spends about 280 billions euros every year; in dollars, you already need 39 bits for such an amount. I would expect world trade to be much higher that that...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1657
David Wagner I won't argue this because it appears obvious to me that the arguments...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1658
Change the numbers in the above paragraph and it has happened before. Many times. So it turns out that somebody needs 100K more than 64- bit even...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1659
Randy Howard That argument has obvious holes. Suppose DJB had suggested using int256; you could have made the same response, and it...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1660
David Wagner rate, Of course you are right in a limited way -- but you should be aware that there is a big shift in...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1661
David Wagner We aren't talking about reading and writing the whole mess. We are talking about indexing the mess to obtain an element. Then you need to look a little deeper. A uniprocessor based on...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1662
I did not suggest it was near, or "dangerous". It is simply, incorrect. The fact that it could happen with int64 but not with sizet proves it. *GASP* Thanks...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1663
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:29:52 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Beth I'd agree if you added ^ too Implementing these new technologies requires such...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1664
No. The man may be a wiz at bit fiddling. He is completely ignorant in the biz...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1665
nice to see a plug for us 'blue-collar' types. i had several jobs where i was encouraged to hire lots of degrees, even...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1666
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:04:19 GMT, Brian Inglis Not sure what you mean, they are the precision, not subranges, whatever that is. They are also fine externally. BTW, under VMS there is a tool...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1667
fOn Sat, 05 Feb 2005 09:24:50 -0800 in alt.folklore.computers, "Tom Concept from Pascal that required you to define the bounds of values held in variables, especially for variables used as array indices...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1668
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 06:14:22 +0000 (UTC) in alt.folklore.computers, "D. The obvious fix *now* is to use something larger...
intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general 1669
the context change is with respect to permissions, address space, registers, etc. not with respect to end resource control. this is analogous to some of the GNOSIS stuff...
intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general 1670
almost. the 370 virtual memory architecture came out long before there was actually hardware built for it ... and...
intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general 1671
so if you want something of the historical evoluation ... cp-40 was done for a 360-40 with custom modified virtual memory hardware. when the standard virtual memory processor came out, the 360-67 ... cp...
intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general was Cell press release, redacted. 1672
Sander Vesik question. for the mainframe batch system, there is a small matter that for 40 years (or...
intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general was Cell press release, redacted. 1673
Alex Colvin systems for so in the 90s we were talking to a large financial transaction operation and they claimed that the two factors that enabled...
360 longevity, was RISCs too close to hardware
precursor to beowolf: i had a running argument at acm sigops (90?, 91?, the one where they had the evening event at the monterey acquarium) with somebody (who was at...
History of performance counters
part of that was from an early incident involving corporate people coming into doing a site security audit in...
IBM Acronyms
Andy Canfield alt.humor.puns: a couple definitions from Mike's glossary that leaked onto the internet: BiCapitalization n. The PracTice of PutTing CapiTal LetTers in the MidDle of...
Self restarting property of RTOSHow it works
Bernd Paysan those If I traffic single there'll random case. down to during the night, glossaries-taxonomies at account for about 1-3rd of total hits ... with pretty good sample around the world at any time...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1678
overcommitting RAM Depending on the major release, SGI IRIX by default either does or doesn't overcommit, but the exact behaviour...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1679
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:00:44 GMT, Brian Inglis Not true, unless someone is incompetent, which this flamewar has long buttumed is not the case. PL-I has in-language dynamic...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1680
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:28:54 -0500, CuriousCat Well, there are languages that have (only or additionally) fixed-length strings (always?) padded with blanks. COBOL has only fixed, at...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1681
Others have already noted this is wrong; fgets always fits a impossible to fit anything) and not EOF or I-O error (with return value NULL which should...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1682
Friday, FTC released latest statistics on idenbreasty theft. As part of co-author of new ANSI (and being put forward for ISO) financial privacy (PIA) standard...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1683
i've got an original, mint condition, v2.7.1 dated mar91 softcopy ... i think that I contributed to some website...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1684
so june 17th of some year ... the largest online service provider started having one of...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1685
That must be the thought process that keeps some of the really reliable blue screens in Windows from one generation to the next. j-k I have been on both...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1686
Only to alt.anagrams, which I don't believe he reads. In case he missed Mick's oh-so-subtle anagram, I include it...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1687
I'd want my compiler to catch grammar and spelling mistakes that would cause a source not to be compileable, certainly. Not sure I want...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1688
part of the mainframe problem was once the "sysgen" process was established ... it was difficult to change its...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1689
basically that was stage1 sysgen. you punched up the parameters of your installation (including device specification) on maybe 100 cards ... which were macro statements that were run thru the buttembler. The buttembler expansion...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1690
when i was an undergraduate, one of the changes i made to cp67 (besides adding a whole slew of performance enhancements) was to add tty-ascii support. standard os-360 & dos was...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1691
I am trying to remember whether CTSS had to have separate ports for 110, 134.5, and 150 on the IBM 7750. Seems to me it did. Multics, also in Tech Square, used the GIOC...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1692
A few good points and updated stats in article on writing your own shell code exploit: "Buffer overflows have been...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1693
note however, that in the case of baneities and automobile crashes, there is active study of the most common causes and efforts to insbreastute corrective actions for...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1694
there is also a large difference in the number of c compiler writers and the number of c coders. one of the early thread postings was that most c-environment string copy...