Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalsqnt!usl!ralph!pja
From: pja@ralph.UUCP (Pete Alleman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm on PDP-11's
Keywords: Portabilty
Message-ID: <379@ralph.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 01:48:43 GMT
References: <780@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: pja@ralph.UUCP (Pete Alleman)
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Organization: Home Sweet Home, Lafayette, LA
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In article <780@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey) writes:
>
>	Has anyone ever gotton Elm to work on a PDP-11? It must be possible
>	since it'll run on '286's. I've tried getting it to compile under
>	2.9 BSD but it has a few problems:

I had similar experiences trying to get it to run on a UNIX V7 system.
I would like to strongly encourage anyone writing C to be run on a variety
of machine to run lint with portability checks turned on (lint -p).

The majority of all code posted on Usenet fails to pass lint.  The output
of "lint -p" is usually larger than the source code.  The tools are
there, why not use them???

-- 
Pete Alleman
	ralph!pja or
	digitran!pja