On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:58:23PM +, Charles Forsyth wrote:
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> But suppose the standard does not evidently aim to be understood, in the
> generally understood meaning of "understood",
> or there are more words in the standard than will ever appear in the
> programmer's own programs?
Do you
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 04:26:52PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
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> Best way to save developer time is to program in a HLL and not
> worry about bit fiddling. C is not a HLL.
The HLL will have to have a compiler. If the compiler is, finally,
machine instructions, how does one guarantee that it does e
Still time to contribute ...
Sincerely
Eric
> Best way to save developer time is to program in a HLL and not
> worry about bit fiddling. C is not a HLL.
C was created as a language to do bit fiddling in - a tool for writing
assembly language a bit more productively than doing it by hand. The
original Unix C compiler was a tool for writing
On Tuesday 30 of October 2012 10:26:52 Richard Miller wrote:
> > Best way to save developer time is to program in a HLL and not
> > worry about bit fiddling. C is not a HLL.
>
> C was created as a language to do bit fiddling in - a tool for writing
> assembly language a bit more productively than
On Mon Oct 29 23:17:25 EDT 2012, cthom.li...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 29 October 2012 23:06, Bakul Shah wrote:
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> >
> > gcc etc. are used to deliver a lot of code that is used in
> > real word. And without a standard there would've been lot
> > less interoperability and far more bugs.
>
>
> Mos
> > > gcc etc. are used to deliver a lot of code that is used in
> > > real word. And without a standard there would've been lot
> > > less interoperability and far more bugs.
This remains true. It is possible and not that difficult to write
code that can be successfully and correctly compiled b
i found a little bug today with one-pixel tracking images. (yahoo.co.jp, for
instance.)
i don't think this program is in the distribution.
; diffy -c resize.c
/n/dump/2012/1030/sys/src/cmd/resize.c:17,24 - resize.c:17,24
bpp = src->depth/8;
bpl = src->width*sizeof(int);
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