4 Aug
2014
4 Aug
'14
2:55 a.m.
> From: Mark Longridge <cubexyz(a)gmail.com>
> I thought you folks might be interested in looking
at the changes I had
> to make. It was a bit harder than the port to v6 but porting to v6
> first did make things a bit easier.
To save me from poring over 'diff' output
:-), what (at a high level) were
the changes you had to make to get it to run on v5?
Noel
Briefly the differences were these:
modern to v7: remove all references to void
no vi on v7, v6, and v5 so using ed instead.
no conditional compilation so no way to make a truly universal version
which works on everything.
v7 to v6: use iolib instead of stdio: fopen -> copen, fclose ->
cclose, fgetc -> cgetc, fputc -> cputc
use int (no long or short in v6)
call to srand uses different argument
copen returns an int instead of a file pointer
no strcat in v6 so the function had to be added
v6 to v5: no iolib: fopen -> creat + open, copen -> open, cgetc ->
read, cputc -> write, cclose -> close
no scanf in v5 so I used the source for gets from v7 instead
getchar() leaves a newline in the buffer so I added an extra call to
getchar() immediately before each call to gets
The size of the unirubik executable was 8K for modern Linux, 10K for
v7, 10K for v6, and 5492 bytes for v5.
Generally I was a lot slower trying to edit files with ed rather than
vi but I'm a lot better with ed now. There wasn't really much unix v5
code to look at and I found the v5 manual a bit spartan.
Mark