Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpfcso!mjs From: mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions Message-ID: <7370381@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> Date: 25 Apr 91 16:57:44 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA Lines: 18 >The patches that I applied were to some 68XXX assembler in the src dir... I think >it was alloca.s. Obviously that doesn't apply to the 800's.... > >I can dig out the notes I got from HP Support if anyone's interested... So it's not an "assembler patch" - that would mean there was a problem with the assembler. It's a "source patch", in this case meaning the problem is with the software. alloca() and crt0 are not things that "portable" programs should be messing with. Doing so merely guarantees your software will not be portable. Software that adheres to standards (POSIX especially) should port with no problem. -------------- Marc Sabatella (marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com) Disclaimers: 2 + 2 = 3, for suitably small values of 2 Bill and Dave may not always agree with me