Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

Alan Cox
2007-12-01T18:23:20Z

> Well, original C allowed you to do what you wanted with pointers (I used
> to teach that back when K&R was "the" C manual). Now people which about
> having pointers outside the array, which is a crock in practice, as long
> as you don't actually /use/ an out of range value.

Actually the standards had good reasons to bar this use, because many
runtime environments used segmentation and unsigned segment offsets. On a
286 you could get into quite a mess with out of array reference tricks.

> variable with the address of the start. I was more familiar with the B
> stuff, I wrote both the interpreter and the code generator+library for
> the 8080 and GE600 machines. B on MULTICS, those were the days... :-D

B on Honeywell L66, so that may well have been a relative of your code
generator ?