Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case (yes, I know...) Message-ID: Date: 9 Sep 90 21:22:23 GMT References: <1990Aug30.164610.3519@zoo.toronto.edu> <13714@smoke.BRL.MIL> <13719@smoke.BRL.MIL> <17628 <263@cadlab.sublink.ORG> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 24 In-reply-to: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG's message of 6 Sep 90 17:47:56 GMT In article <263@cadlab.sublink.ORG> staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli) writes: | >% Lots of people don't bother to cast pointers before handing them to a | > prototypeless free(); this fails on word-addressible architectures, which is | > probably a more likely situation than non-ASCII. One's complement is my | > personal bugaboo; I have no idea how much of my code it would break. | | More likely?!?! I'd bet there's twice as many IBM 370-compatibles and | AS/400's and their ilk out there, than word-addressible machines AND | one's-complement ones *put together* (at least by some measure, say | dollar value of all programs yearly purchased for said machines, | which should be an interesting one for venal programmers...:-). Reality check time -- as far as I know, there is no C compiler for the AS/400. It would be an interesting experience, in a sick sort of way from what little I've heard about the internals of this beast. Also, up until last year or so, C had real little penetration in the 370 market placem, except on Amdahl's version of unix. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?