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.