Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!nather From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Postings of microcomputer software Message-ID: <1006@utastro.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 11:45:35 EST Article-I.D.: utastro.1006 Posted: Mon Feb 11 11:45:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 03:21:30 EST References: <165@ur-cvsvax.UUCP> <151@redwood.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 35 > +--------------- > | Since compilers for anything other than assembly language tend not to > | be standardized in the microcomputer world, may I suggest that postings > | of software written in higher-level languages to net.micro.{whatever} > | or net.sources include uuencoded copies of the binary files whenever > | possible? | Tony Movshon > +--------------- > > (Was this a joke? I dare not assume so...) > > Since operating system calling conventions and hardware register locations > are even LESS "standard" than higher-level languages, let's NOT further > clutter "net.sources" with useless binaries, P L E A S E !?!?! Higher- > level languages are the MOST likely to be standard, and if portability > problems arise, it is far FAR easier to tweak a C program for my local > environment than an 8080 binary!!! (...especially since I use a 68000!) > > p.s. Even assembly languages are not standard for the same machine. I know > of at least three 68000 assembler formats I have had to deal with. > > Rob Warnock > Systems Architecture Consultant Good theory -- too bad it's wrong. I sent Tony Movshon a few C programs that would compile under DeSmet C AND CI-C86 for the IBM PC, and he had a rough time getting them to compile, much less work, under Lattice C. I have yet to get working Lattice C programs he sent me to compile under either compiler I use. He had no trouble running the executable code on his DEC Rainbow, and I ran executables he sent on my IBM PC. We had the same experience with a Z-100 and a TI Professional -- all 8088/8086 machines. I admit we were surprised, but ... well, there it is. -- Ed Nather Astronony Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather