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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews ported to V/AT?
Message-ID: <1990Feb8.182437.25095@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <45@frau.UUCP> <3+1:A3-@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 18:24:37 GMT

In article <3+1:A3-@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
>>Has anyone ported C-news to Microport V/AT? ...
>
>It's not simple. In particular, expire and relaynews need to be compiled
>in large model, or else they run out of memory...

I'm a bit surprised at that, as they do run on 16-bit machines, but this
is somewhat a function of things like how many groups you get.  If your
active file is 28KB (like ours), this clearly raises storm warnings for
16-bit programs that want to keep it all in core.

>There's one macro that needs to be simplified to make Microport's
>compiler happy: In relay/hdrdefs.c, the definition of the offsetof()
>macro needs to be changed to
>#define offsetof(type, mem) ((int)&((type *)NULL)->mem)

This is now discussed in notebook/problems, along with other porting
problems of various kinds.
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