Since 4/2/2012 5:15:09 AM, jjf has written 8 articles and participated in 509 conversations. jjf signature: jjf
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AIX 7.1337 (11/8/2010 2:41:50 AM) comp.unix.aix I have a very difficult question to which I've been struggling for days to get an answer: Has AIX 7.1 got to general release yet, or is it still in "open beta"? I didn't expect it to be a difficult question,... J
limit on number of FC disks268 (3/9/2008 11:32:21 PM) comp.unix.aix I'm having trouble finding the limits on the number of Fibre Channel disks which can be attached to and used by an AIX system. Judging from the limits on the number of PVs per VG it's probably quite high, but... J
Keepalive in Solaris Express and Solaris 104513 (7/6/2006 10:14:48 AM) comp.unix.solaris Is there any way to discover when features introduced in Solaris Express will find their way into Solaris 10 or 11? The one I'm particularly interested in is the per-socket TCP keepalive tunables which were in... J
wchar_t and wide characters131 (3/13/2006 11:43:34 AM) comp.lang.c Do Standard C's wide characters and wide strings require absolutely that each character be stored in a single wchar_t, or can characters be "multi-wchar_t" in the same way that they can be multibyte? Is it a re... jjf
Who uses the 32-bit kernel?432 (11/21/2005 7:54:00 PM) comp.unix.aix I'm knew to the AIX world, and trying to get a feel for it. I'd like to know how common it is to run the 32-bit kernel on POWER family servers running AIX 5.2 and 5.3. Are there many servers running 5.2 or 5.3... J
SCSA target driver attach ordering0104 (1/17/2005 10:59:32 AM) comp.unix.solaris If more than one SCSA target driver mentions a particular LUN in its ..conf file, I believe the system will offer the LUN to each driver in turn until one attaches to it. Is there any way to control the order i... J
External object definition and linkage1227 (4/2/2004 9:05:42 PM) comp.lang.c After many years of dealing with definition and linkage issues in ways that I know to be safe, I've decided it's time to try to understand this area properly. Consider a header file with the file scope declarat... jjf
ddi_iomin(9F) bug?0183 (8/15/2003 8:14:51 AM) comp.unix.solaris ddi_iomin() is supposed to find the minimum DMA transfer size for the given device. However, in Solaris 9 SPARC it is implemented as a wrapper around a ddi_ctlops() DDI_CTLOPS_IOMIN call. This call looks up the... J
Compliant way to use offsetof for a field within a field?632 (9/1/2011 3:28:30 PM) comp.lang.c Is there a compliant way of getting the offset of a field within a field? I'm mainly using this to do compile-time checks that fields are at the offset I expect them. I'm using offsetof( NameOfStruct, field1.fi... skillzero(29)
To use Perl like conditional assignment in C1433 (9/24/2011 11:06:14 AM) comp.lang.c Hello, I want to assign an uncertain value to a variable, this variable with values in the configuration file, reads the configuration file through a function to return to the read configuration value, if not... shouyatf(3)
Video Mode 13h and Mode X in C431 (9/25/2011 8:41:09 PM) comp.lang.c Hello I am seeking the best way (speed and portability) to program mode 13h (320 x 200 256 colors), and mode X. I am using Borland's Turbo C++ ver 3.0 for MS DOS. With Borland product, I can not find a BGI dr... krish_bashwari_121190(2)
incomplete initialization of array1141 (9/30/2011 5:26:15 PM) comp.lang.c Hi all : I thought that the following code will initialilze every element of array, but it appears that it does so only for the 0th index. #define MAX_LEN 10 char name[MAX_LEAN + 1] = { '\0', }; Somehow I w... mark_cruzNOTFORSPAM(178)
An assignment isn't being executed.827 (10/5/2011 10:20:45 AM) comp.lang.c I have an assignment which should be GC_arrays._top_index [1]->index[546] = 0x631cf0; but when I step through with the debugger (gdb) p GC_arrays._top_index [1]->index[546] $33 = (hdr *)... chine.bleu(655)
unsigned == signed ? #21427 (10/11/2011 7:43:03 PM) comp.lang.c int main() { uint x = -1; int y = -1; if (x == y) printf("EQUAL"); else printf("NOT EQUAL"); } This code prints "EQUAL". Does this mean that bit comparison is done for the equality test? If it doesn't can you... raj121190(27)
How would you design C's replacement?24669 (4/29/2012 4:17:29 PM) comp.lang.c If you were given the task to design a replacement for the C programming language intended to fix all its problems and shortcomings, what would you propopose? Rui Maciel ... rui.maciel(1745)
The C Conference, 2012-08-28, San Diego, CA947 (4/30/2012 11:13:20 PM) comp.lang.c http://www.cconf.org/ I have no affiliation with this conference; I just ran across a link to it and thought people here would be interested. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Will writ... kst-u(21465)
Learning C as an existing programmer9230 (6/24/2012 9:52:37 PM) comp.lang.c Hi
I need to learn C for numerical analysis as part of my Masters research.
I already have quite a lot of experience with BASIC (my progression was GW
BASIC -> QBASIC -> Visual BASIC -> VB.net) so I wan... nospam21(11322)