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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: Bad assumption in com driver PLUS new systm.h Message-ID: <1993Mar15.223514.14586@uvm.edu> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <1993Mar15.220556.13648@uvm.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 22:35:14 GMT Lines: 17 In article <1993Mar15.220556.13648@uvm.edu> I goofed: >It should be possible to compile the entire kernel on a ``caller >pops'' convention and not break anything. Of course, I meant ``callee pops''. (For those interested in such things, this is why a prototype like `void bar(int x, ...)' is not compatible with the declaration `void bar()'; X3J11 wanted to make sure that this is possible to do in a confirming C implementation.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant