Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: dumping core on *(NULL) is not a function of your processor
Summary: Speaking of COFF...
Message-ID: <769@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 04:26:27 GMT
References: <3618@palo-alto.DEC.COM> <62285@sun.uucp> <3642@palo-alto.DEC.COM>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <3642@palo-alto.DEC.COM>, vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie) writes:
[discussion on magic numbers here]

> COFF won't do as-is, but it's a step in the right direction.

Unrelated to the original topic, I seem to recall hearing of
a new version of COFF in the works.  Since the dpANS requires
at least 12 levels of ptr/array/fcn declarators and COFF only
provides for six*, I would suspect that somebody is working on
this.  Anybody have any word?

     Steve

[*] - 12-level support in the symbol table is not required for
ANSI conformance, but it is likely that somebody will want SDB
to know how to fully work with one of these programs...

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