Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Do you trust the "indent" program? Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 91 19:51:13 GMT References: <12184@sybase.sybase.com> <11742@alice.att.com> <310@audfax.audiofax.com> <1990Dec28.220527.16131@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1991Jan2.164722.15516@odi.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 22 In-reply-to: benson@odi.com's message of 2 Jan 91 16:47:22 GMT In article <1991Jan2.164722.15516@odi.com> benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes: | Multics has a compare_object command that did a logical compare, | section by section. Surely OSF can do as well. Surely someone could | write one and put it in the public domain, in any case. | I would if I needed it. I'm planning on writing one. I hacked together a perl script that compares MIPS ECOFF binaries section by section. Perl is not the language to write such a beast, so the mark-II version will be in C. It reminded me of my early days at Data General, where you had to write your own structures for doing system calls from the assembly language parameters (which is why I became a fanatic about providing the structures for the C compiler I wrote for them). -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?