On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:45:07PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Looks pretty much like standard C until you get into the minutiae, such > as "A character constant is 1 to 4 characters" and page 4-4 "Data Types" > (9 bit characters and 36 bit ints and 18 bit short ints). > > So, it should be pretty straightforward unless you assume that a char > is 8 bits, with a signed char having a range of +/-255.
"pretty straightforward" Thanks. I needed a laugh. As someone who tries to get/keep a zillion open source packages building on FreeBSD, on non-x86 archs, I constantly refer to a piece of paper that hangs on my wall. It was given to me many years ago at a conference, by its author, Henry Spencer. An annotated version may be found here: https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html Of course these days s/VAX/32-bit Linux distro/, but the principle still holds. Finally, for any remaining disbelievers, the most recent update of FreeBSD's toolchain to include Clang version 6, regressed 419 port builds -- on x86 alone. mcl
