Re: [cc65] Target BBC - info only

From: Ullrich von Bassewitz <uz1musoftware.de>
Date: 2005-04-05 23:22:28
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:48:36PM +0200, Kolja Nikolaus Sträter wrote:
> To Uz: as I said in a previous mail, I'm not getting into this any
> deeper right now, but I will contact you once I do.

You're welcome!

> I still like your
> code by the way, after some grappling with it - still seems nice and
> clear and well-commented.

It's the compiler which has some ugly stuff in it. Casting pointers to longs
and encoding them into an array of bytes for example. This one the reason for
the problems on some 64 bit platforms. Most of the other stuff should be ok.

> One small question: why did you say as a comment to the ctype table,
> that the table itself is not portable? It's in the cbm directory, not in
> common.

The exact wording is: "It is highly portable.  The only unportable part is the
table itself; all real code goes into the common library."

This means: The table itself is platform dependent. There's one table for the
CBMs (because they share PETSCII as charset), there another table for the
Atari, one for the Apple, and so on. The code that works with the table (like
isupper(), isalpha()) is the same for all platforms.

> (I'm hereby reactivating my alias, I always thought it was too short,
> but then seeing your 2-letter one, I guess it's not that bad :-)

"Uz" is not really an alias, it's a nick. My parents first planned to name me
this way, but later decided it may give problems, so they named me "Ullrich",
but called me "Uz". I've been called this way since my birth. There are some
records[*] that were taken when I was between 1 and 2 years old. My my
grandfather was reading a book with me. And he was already calling me "Uz".

Regards


        Uz



[*] Top secrect of course:-)

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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz@musoftware.de
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