Re: GCIC Fullscreen applications

I believe what Paul means is that with the C language and the GCC implementation on VM it is possible to write reentrant or non-reentrant programs.  The same is of course true for assembler.

The GCC compiler and runtime support reentrancy.  But you must code appropriately.

Bob

--- In [email protected], "Joe Monk" <joe.monk@...> wrote:
>
> Paul -
> 
> How is the sort function supposed to work in a multi tasking envrionment, if
> it cant be *arbitrarily* reentrant?
> 
> Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> kerravon86
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 7:21 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [H390-VM] Re: GCIC Fullscreen applications
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Joe Monk" <joe.monk@> wrote:
> >
> > Just give up. He's already admitted that its not doable.
> 
> I admitted that *what* is not doable?
> 
> > >> There would be a lot of extra baggage required to force an 
> > >> arbitrary C program to be reentrant, baggage that is not yet 
> > >> available.
> 
> Forcing an arbitrary C program to be reentrant?
> 
> Yes, quibbling aside, that isn't possible.
> 
> But in the environment he is thinking of using it in, he doesn't need it to
> be an arbitrary C program.  He can write his C code so that it's naturally
> reentrant, and doesn't use library functions, except perhaps the ones that
> are able to be made available in a non-hosted environment.
> 
> BFN.  Paul.
> 
> 
> 
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