Imlac assembler almost ready...

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Tue Sep 17 09:58:00 2002

Huw Davies wrote:

> The main issue is that whilst there are lots of C implementations (which
> allows for
> portability) the fact that lots of people write very non-portable C is
> bad. The
> real killer (from personal experience) are those programmers who think
> sizeof(int) == sizeof(*int). This breaks lots of "portable" code when
> moving
> away from a typical 32bit machine (especially to alpha).
   Or 16 bit code to a 32 bit machine.
   BTW FORTRAN was fairly portiable in its day. Not easy to program in
for text based operations like cross assemblers but many cpu's in the
1970's has cross-compilers and cross-assemblers written for them in
FORTRAN. It is the fact that computers DON'T have a front panel that
really makes OLD FORTRAN a pain to port for SENSE switch opertations.
Received on Tue Sep 17 2002 - 09:58:00 BST