Re: malloc under Lattice C V5.05

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 1990 13:00

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> In article <6620@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >(As an aside: most 68000 compilers I've used in the past have returned
> > pointers in A0 and ints in D0. Seems like an obvious move. I guess Manx
> > and Lattice had other priorities.)

In article <dillon.6198@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>     This type of 'buggy' program is such an obscure bug that I fault the
>     compilers for trying to do the A0/D0 business without adding
>     appropriate cautions.

Why? Any program that fails on this sort of compiler will also fail on any
compiler where sizeof(int) != sizeof(char *) (like Aztec C on the Amiga
in default mode prior to 5.0, or any IBM-PC compiler with reasonably large
programs). Far from being an obscure bug, it's by far the most common one in
BSD/VAX originated software.

If you want to play games with the name, why not put the *whole* prototype
into the name? (frex, if you have (void *)malloc(unsigned), make the real name
of the routine vp$malloc$u)
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re:  malloc under Lattice C V5.05
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Date: 30 Sep 90 13:00:45 GMT
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