[Coco] Yaright on OSK M4 -> 6x09

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Wed Dec 15 16:13:30 EST 2010


On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:44:06PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 08:21:58 pm Willard Goosey did opine:

> > GNU obstack.h completely blows c_prep19's mind.  There are macros that
> > are nearly a full screen long!
> 
> Then its very likely that MW c.prep will also dirty its breeches badly 
> enough to take the machine down.

Oh, yes, I'm sure.  I don't even have the original c.prep on my hard
drive.  C.prep is another copy of c_prep, in case something calls CC1
instead of cc252.

> > C_prep19 has a line-length limit of 250 characters.
> 
> At the time I did that, I sweat pseudo blood to get it that big.  

And for reasonable code it's plenty.  I just wasn't expecting GNU
bloat hiding in OSK code. 

>Do you 
> have the src for that? I may be able to find it on my machine someplace if 
> you would like to try.  

I'm not sure if I have the source for c_prep19 or not. If you uploaded
it to RTSI I do.

>Yes, I had worked on it some more since the 1993 
> c.prep19, but was never happy that I was actually making an improvement. 
> 
> I have a /dd/maxtor/c.src/cpreps/cp22 directory that would be my last pass 
> at it in 1995.  If you'd like I can ar or lha it and put it up on my web 
> page.  Maybe someone else can pick up this ball and carry it.  Just name 
> your compression poison preferences.

Sure, that would be cool.  I don't know if anybody would do anything
with it.  lha for me, please.

Willard
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