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From: edb_tom@tor.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Standardization of Minix.
Message-ID: <67@tor.nhh.no>
Date: 23 Aug 89 03:10:14 GMT
Organization: NHH, Bergen, Norway
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A couple of observations regarding non-standard details in Minix:

- The FILE struct used in our stdio uses different levels of
  indirection from the normal "standard".  Also, the members
  of the struct have wrong names.  Shouldn't this be fixed,
  to ease portability for programs that use these elements?
  I've taken the liberty of doing so in my library, and haven't
  experienced any problems.

- Then there's the old problem with not having ".o" files.
  I've changed my cc and related programs to use ".s" for
  unpacked assembly sources, and ".o" for packed assembly.
  This also works very well, and (at least in my opinion)
  makes program development easier.

How about it?  Should we go for something like this in future?

-tih

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Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, NHH, Bergen, Norway.  Telephone:  +47-5-959205
edb_tom@tor.nhh.no, thelbekk@norunit.bitnet, helbekkmo@nhh.uninett