20 Sep
2024
20 Sep
'24
5:56 p.m.
Moved to COFF.
On 2024-09-20 11:07, Dave Horsfall wrote (in part):
Giggle... In a device driver I wrote for V6, I used the expression
"0123"[n]
and the two programmers whom I thought were better than me had to ask me
what it did...
-- Dave, brought up on PDP-11 Unix[*]
[*]
I still remember the days of BOS/PICK/etc, and I staked my career on Unix.
Working on embedded systems, we often used constructs such as a[-4] to
either read or modify stuff on the stack (for that particular
compiler+processor only).
S.