From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 15 15:09:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA04107 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:09:08 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA04097 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:09:02 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA13226; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 00:08:22 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA07869 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 00:08:21 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA03378 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 00:05:23 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504152205.AAA03378@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 90's compilers To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 00:05:23 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199504151853.EAA32482@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 16, 95 04:53:56 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 657 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >int, and might take any possible number of arguments'' :). There have > >been many errors in the code (functions that actually take a `char' > >argument, while the compiler promoted it to `int' -- works only since > >we're little-endian). > > >This style made it highly error-prone. > > Actually the functions took an `int' arg and demoted it to a `char'. ...depending on the point of view. Anyway, they haven't been declared before, so i take my POV as state-of-the-art now. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)