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Has DMR retired? 2 28 (12/17/2007 10:03:53 AM) comp.os.plan9 Somebody edited the Wikipedia article "Dennis Ritchie" to insert a rumor that he retired from Bell Labs/Lucent (or whatever the company name is) this month. I reverted the edit until we can obtain some reliabl... Douglas

another bug in Plan9 "grap" 0 11 (10/30/2007 9:56:33 AM) comp.os.plan9 "grap" source file "input.c", function "pushsrc": case File: printf("push file %s\n", ((Infile *)ptr)->fname); should be: case File: printf("push file %s\n", ptr); ... Douglas

man gcc 0 20 (1/29/2007 9:37:12 AM) comp.os.plan9 Just for information and amusement: In support of a current project, I built and installed the latest release of GCC (on a non-Plan-9 system). "man gcc" displays 238 pages explaining the command-line options! ... Douglas

real hardware hacking? 0 24 (3/14/2005 11:53:55 AM) comp.os.plan9 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5174893446 ... Douglas

how to boot from hard disk? 3 24 (6/27/2003 8:26:11 AM) comp.os.plan9 I've wasted a lot of time trying to get the following three OSes to be simultaneously bootable from partitions on the primary master IDE disk (using System Commander 8 as a boot manager): Windows Me Plan 9 r.... Douglas

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[9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc 7 19 (11/1/2007 8:12:40 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hello. I've been trying out programming Plan 9 since I got the system up and I think I'm getting the hang of learning from man pages. I'm not a big fan of having to type "man -t 2 xxx | page" about 100 time... pietro10 (564)

[9fans] Problems with pcc 5 36 (11/12/2007 1:43:29 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hello. Aside from my cut project, I decided to see if I could use pcc to compile my own version of hoc(1) (http://www.andlabs.com/ hoc_p9.tgz) and just after calling yacc, pcc has given me a whirlwind of i... pietro10 (564)

A function is an address 42 32 (12/7/2007 8:28:15 PM) comp.lang.c Ignoring implementation details and strictly following the C99 standard in terms of semantics, is there anything fundamentally flawed with describing the use of a (non-inline) function as an address[1]? I keep ... happyfrosty (97)

[9fans] pointless, destructive programs 1 21 (1/9/2008 4:21:49 PM) comp.os.plan9 This is quite possibly my favorite bitblt program. http://research.swtch.com/2008/01/crabs-bitmap-terror.html [Apologies for being a bit off-topic.] Russ ... rsc (1807)

Re: [9fans] snap checksum 2 15 (1/12/2008 7:07:11 PM) comp.os.plan9 > does anyone know if the function /sys/src/cmd/snap/take.c:/^sumr > can return 0 for a buffer that is not all zeros? > > i think it can not, since for sum&1, the next sum at least > has 0x8000 set and otherwi... rsc (1807)

[9fans] stdarg & va_copy 2 36 (1/24/2008 6:16:00 PM) comp.os.plan9 is there any reason that /$objtype/include/u.h does not define va_copy? are there objections to this c99 macro? - erik ... quanstro54 (944)

A solution for the allocation failures problem 240 47 (1/29/2008 11:47:27 AM) comp.lang.c 1: It is not possible to check EVERY malloc result within complex software. 2: The reasonable solution (use a garbage collector) is not possible for whatever reasons. 3: A solution like the one proposed by Mr... jacob4111 (1334)

[9fans] Non-parallel loop in Sam 1 30 (2/6/2008 4:58:59 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hi all, I'm new to Plan9 and also this mailing list. After some experience with Sam's structral regexp, I become quite interested in this editor command. And I also noticed that the loop and condition comman... wanghz (47)

[9fans] ctags on plan 9 with acme-friendly tags 4 17 (2/17/2008 5:35:51 AM) comp.os.plan9 i occasionally have to deal with moderate to large bodies of code written by others and of questionable structural integrity. most often this is C code, but sometimes its other things. there are a few tools i'v... anothy (227)

CERT C Secure Coding Standard - last call for reviewers 121 29 (3/20/2008 2:02:10 PM) comp.lang.c We would like to invite the C community to review and comment on the current version of the CERT C Secure Coding Standard available online at www.securecoding.cert.org before Version 1.0 is published. To com... rcs4646 (32)