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.

>>27
No I mena 36. The PDP-10 could only address memory one word at a time. Breaking apart a word into smaller bytes required special instructions.  C implementations on most other systems assume that each char can be identified by a unique machine pointer value; if you tried to do that on a PDP-10 your chars would be 36 bits.

>>30
Would you prefer to implement your own memory barriers using platform specific inline assembly?  If you're using C to replace assembly as a systems language it needs to have atomics.