Have you ever seen me praising C? Vile imprecations don't count as praise.
(I will admit to defending the idiom for (;;) {code}) as an obvious do forever.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Subject: Re: Convert a Metal C control block mapping to Assembler DSECT ?
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:58:26 +0000, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:
>FSVO typed.
>
>void * foo
>
So I can't do "foo -> member", but must "(type *) foo-> member". Ugh!
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>From: Paul Gilmartin
>Sent: Monday, February 24, 2020 6:54 PM
>> ...
>>Agree with Lionel's recommendation. Even if the usage is going to be 90% C
>>and 10% HLASM you want to do the DSECT first and work from there.
>>
>I find it ironic that a weakly typed language such as assembler is a good
>source for generating definitions for a strongly typed language such as C.
-- gil
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