craig@LOKI.ARPA (Craig Partridge) (07/13/85)
[Mild Flame]
I've recently been getting a spate of 4.2 sources which are
unnecessarily VAX dependent. Byte ordering dependencies, asm()'s
and minor sillyness like including "/sys/vax/XXX.h" instead
"/sys/machine/XXX.h". (Before someone screams about this,
many of the .h files in /sys/vax are actually not very
different from those in /sys/sun on SUNs -- I can't claim
true knowledge for other 4.2 machines).
Right now I know of at least 5 machines running 4.2
(Vaxen, Pyramids, SUNs, Integrated Solutions, Tektronix
workstations). It would be nice if authors of 4.2 sources
would keep this in mind.
Craig Partridge
craig@bbn-loki (ARPA)
craig%loki.arpa@csnet-relay (CSNET)
{decvax,ihnp4,wjh12}!bbncca!craig (USENET)boston@celerity.UUCP (Boston Office) (07/25/85)
In article <11551@brl-tgr.ARPA> craig@LOKI.ARPA (Craig Partridge) writes: > >[Mild Flame] > > I've recently been getting a spate of 4.2 sources which are >unnecessarily VAX dependent. Byte ordering dependencies, asm()'s >and minor sillyness like including "/sys/vax/XXX.h" instead >"/sys/machine/XXX.h". (Before someone screams about this, >many of the .h files in /sys/vax are actually not very >different from those in /sys/sun on SUNs -- I can't claim >true knowledge for other 4.2 machines). > > Right now I know of at least 5 machines running 4.2 >(Vaxen, Pyramids, SUNs, Integrated Solutions, Tektronix >workstations). It would be nice if authors of 4.2 sources >would keep this in mind. > >Craig Partridge >craig@bbn-loki (ARPA) >craig%loki.arpa@csnet-relay (CSNET) >{decvax,ihnp4,wjh12}!bbncca!craig (USENET) --- Not to mention the Celerity C1200.