1 Nov
2022
1 Nov
'22
1:21 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 3:18 PM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Larry McVoy writes:
That sounds like a ton of codebases, though. I remember trying to port an
APL interpreter to 64-bit, and giving up; too much type puning of pointers
through int's.
- Dan C.
Sunview was a toolkit - a really nice one in my
opinion, every api had
a set of defaults and a key, so you could call sv_whatever(SV_DONE)
and did whatever with the default values. But you could override the
defaults like so sv_whatever(SV_SOMEKEY, some_value, SV_DONE). It
kept the system from being very verbose.
People like Sunview's api enough that there was an Xview toolkit which
was Sunview ported to X10/X11.
Yeah, but it had its own issues. I did an emergency late night and weekend
consulting contract with Sun because Xview kept crashing. Turns out that
the code had some very suspect pointer dereferencing that worked until the
SPARC processors came along and barfed at unaligned accesses.