Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!helios!n025fc From: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: long identifiers Message-ID: Date: 26 Oct 90 16:36:03 GMT References: <15953@csli.Stanford.EDU> <487@taumet.com> <15959@csli.Stanford.EDU> <272477A0.6845@tct.uucp> <1925@tuvie> <1990Oct25.182246.27505@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1990Oct26.115021.6330@watmath.waterloo.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Texas A&M University Lines: 17 In-reply-to: datanguay@watmath.waterloo.edu's message of 26 Oct 90 11:50:21 GMT In article <1990Oct26.115021.6330@watmath.waterloo.edu> datanguay@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Adrien Tanguay) writes: > ..... The big problems in porting software to > this system are byte size assumptions, pointer format assumptions, and > "all the world's a Unix" library assumptions. ..... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Agreed on all points but the last one. Though I will try to avoid specific Unix implementation dependencies, I will always BLATANTLY assume a Unix environment of some kind. Sorry, can't help myself! :-) > -- > David Tanguay Software Development Group, University of Waterloo -- Kev PS: I hope I didn't misunderstand your meaning here.