22 May
2012
22 May
'12
9:35 a.m.
On Mon, 21 May 2012, Michael Davidson wrote:
/*
* you are not expected to understand this.
*/
Line 2238, of course :-) For any youngsters here, that code is *subtle*.
Vale, both DMR and Dr John Lions (my lecturer at UNSW).
That would certainly still be appropriate for the
Linux context switch
code which, last time I looked, was a horrible mess of gcc "asm"
constructs glued together with C preprocessor macros.
Typical Penguin/OS. I am in stitches.
The comment that I miss most, however, is:
/*
* printf should not be used for chit chat
*/
My favourite too :-) We ended up implementing the call via the TTY
interface, so that our 11/40 would not be brought to her knees.
-- Dave