From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derek M Jones Subject: Re: '$' as "valid" character in identifiers Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:18:11 +0100 Message-ID: <46559093.5060908@knosof.co.uk> References: <4654B59A.50302@redhat.com> <20070524100433.GE4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <4655737B.7010701@knosof.co.uk> <20070524123512.GF4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.47]:16914 "EHLO mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755588AbXEXNSQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 09:18:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070524123512.GF4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Al Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds , Michael Stefaniuc , Sparse Mailing-list Al, > And now for reality: of course if we set out to imitate the implementation > allowing $, we'd better imitate it. The question is what to watch out > for and how to avoid buggering the tokenizer in process. If sparse is going to imitate a VAX implementation then how $ is glued is probably the least of the implemention worries. VAX C supported a whole host of extensions (eg, the ability to glue comments, 8 & 9 in octal constants). I have a pdf of the DEC C language reference manual for Tru64 which people are welcome to a copy of. > I don't have access to VMS boxen (thanks $DEITY); Continuing in the vein of Irrelevant, AFAICS. You can access various Crays here: http://www.cray-cyber.org/access/index.php Perhaps there is a similar site available for Vaxes? > IOW, we need documentation of the native compilers to find out which kind > of behaviour is expected. I collect old C compiler manuals, if anybody locates a ps or pdf of an original VAC C compiler manual, please forward me a copy. -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:derek@knosof.co.uk Applications Standards Conformance Testing http://www.knosof.co.uk