I want unsigned char * string literals

[Malcolm McLean]

Oh please. I appreciate your input. It's usually good advice. But spare
me the drama. Just because I think The C Standard Library is useless
[1], that has little impact on using C The Language.

I grew up on systems without a standard library.
Just about the first thing I always did when getting new hardware was to
implement a cut down stdlib for it.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

[...]
I never said that the exiting malloc(3) function should be changed to
have a context object. I just said it was useless [...]

For the Nth time: Forget about C and find a language
more suited to your tastes.

Just because I think The C Standard Library is useless
[1], that has little impact on using C The Language.

The point is, the Standard Library is part of the language definition.
You are also apparently taking exception to how C defines a string
variable. This is a fundamental part of C. And claiming that malloc is
useless is just plain stupid (tm).

--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan

 

[Richard Bos]

Incedentially, the current malloc is reentrant and thread-safe because
it uses locks (although I don't recall of the top of my head if that
is a standards requirement).

_The_ current malloc()? I suspect you don't grasp the real situation,
here.

Richard

 

[David Thompson]

Ben Pfaff wrote On 07/23/07 17:08,:

Extra code. For example, the PDP-11 MOVB instruction
performed sign extension when loading an 8-bit byte into
a 16-bit register (the hardware equivalent of "promotion").
To get unsigned semantics, you'd need more instructions to
do something about the high-order bits (maybe SUB R0,R0
followed by BISB byte,R0 -- two instructions instead of one).

Or more idiomatically just CLR Rd then BISB as stated.
(From memory 00500d, 15ss0d [srcwrd] ... checking ... yes!)

But I've finally -- more than 30 years later -- forgotten the PDP-8
handboot (Read-In-Mode aka RIM loader). Fortunately(?) it's now almost
certainly on the web.

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