Dirty Old Joseph the Unix Hacker

DIS ONES FOR ALL DA RETOIDS IN ##c@irc.freenode.net AND ALL DA RETOIDS IN comp.lang.c.

Still using his mainframe, still hanging onto scraps.

Still reinventing libc for all of his apps.

The chortling, snorting, farting old coote

has been shitting on the Internet for longer than moot.

>>21
Specifically, a macro that calls a function in the thread implementation returningint * and dereferences the result. I'd call that a hack.

>>23
<thread.h> is mostly pointless. On the other hand, something like <stdatomic.h> has really been needed for years.

>>26
making a virtual macine or some shit
As I recall, the C implementation for the PDP-10 (yes, there was one) had to implement its own byte addressing. Otherwise just setting CHAR_BIT to 36 would have wasted ridiculous amounts of memory for string operations while creating ABI issues with other code that expected packed strings.