24 Apr
2015
24 Apr
'15
4:03 p.m.
I kinda like this, it's like Python with Handgrenades!
On 24 Apr 2015, at 14:10, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2015-04-24 14:09, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I know what it is, I've just never used a
compiler in my life that ONLY does K&R..
:-)
But if you don't declare the parameter types
they're assumed to be ints right, which works a lot of the time if a point is the size
of an int and you're passing pointers around..No?
Yes, the default type is int, if you don't say anything else.
And with int and pointer being the same size, most of the time, everything will work just
fine even when you don't declare types correctly, as the largest pitfalls are usually
around pointer and int exchanges/interactions.
But, like I said, you do not have prototypes, so you do not ever have any type checking.
Even the number of arguments to functions are unknown and unchecked.
Johnny
sampsa
On 24 Apr 2015, at 10:50, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2015-04-24 06:34, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Yeah it's insane, Hello World wouldn't
compile until I changed it into this format:
---- SNIP ----
#include <stdio.h>
int main(argc,argv) <--------- Type declarations, who needs that crap,
everything's an int! WOOO!
{
printf("Hello guise\n");
}
---- END ----
It's called K&R. You don't have prototypes, but arguments do have types. You
just declare it like this:
int main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
printf("Hello world\n");
}
Johnny
Also where is the equivalent of resolv.conf on these machines? I'm going to leave
this instance up and running, just for the hell of it - DECNET works (had to hack the
config files that load it up to get a node database since there's no NCP COPY KNOWN
NODES command lol) in and out, the address is JBEIL (8.225) and the current guest account
is riddle/riddle.
Leave a message, sendmail (urgh) is running, it's set up to deliver local mail. Going
to maybe try to get this beast from the 70s of UNIX hell onto UUHECNET, it said it
installed UUCP...
Oh and if anyone solves the riddle I set in Punic / Akkadian, I'm sending them
something cool from the souk in Jbeil..:)
IP works in and out but name resolution doesn't (resolv.conf is there, I can ping
8.8.8.8 but the system is just like "huh?"), I wonder if that apk nutjob still
makes those 100 MB hosts files..
Sampsa
On 24 Apr 2015, at 03:32, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2015-04-24 04:05, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>> OK, so any tips on making an ULTRIX box a tad more modern? The terminal
definitions are all weird and the C compiler is from the 70s...
>>
>> Is there a nice set of BSD / GNU tools I can install on this? Or is this it?
>
> Ha ha ha... We're talking Ultrix here. You'll be lucky to find software that
will even compile without you having to jump through all kind of hoops...
>
> You might want to start by replacing the whole syslog on that thing. We used to run
Ultrix at Update a number of years ago, and got most things upgraded. It was a pain, and
nowadays it will probably be an even greater pain.
>
> Johnny
>
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