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From: rehmi@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Array Initialization & Whitesmith's
Message-ID: <843@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 18:24:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 15 18:24:52 1983
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Whitesmith's is a really flunky implementation. In particular, one of
it's many losses over which I have been losing much sleep is
initialization, globablity, and pointer manipulation. These act in a
most bizzarre (sp?) fashion on our Vax -> z80 version.

In fact, I recently got Aztec C for Apple ]['s, and it adheres very
faithfully indeed to K&R. It looks identical to V7 C. It even has the
basic i/o syscalls and ioctls and a kernel (except that there is no
seperate mode for it). Very very very nice. Except it compiles slow
trying to get off of floppies.

I think that says something about the z80 and/or Whitesmith's. I've
come to hate both intensely.

					-Rehmi
-- 
	By the fork, spoon, and exec of The Great Basfour.

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