How do you initialize your complex structs in C? I mean, something like 'struct foo {short bar[2]; int baz}'? There exist 2 styles:

1. struct foo x = {1, 2, 3} (flat list)
2. struct foo x = {{1, 2}, 3} (nested braces)

It seems gcc prefers the latter. The former initializer style triggers 'warning: missing braces around initializer' when '-Wall' or '- ( Read more... )

We are in process of migrating InstantLink from old PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 superdome to new itanic 11.31 server -- typical platform jumping game (kudos to vvv). Yesterday I tried to to build gcc on new itanic HP-UX 11.31:
First of all, the old method for PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11failed on the very first step, with binutils-2.11 complaining ( Read more... )

I don't even know how is the xterm-color different from regular xterm, I was just testing my brand new .bashrc and .bash_profile vs. colorised PS1 on itanic HP-UX host and stumbled upon the interesting fact that interactive bash starts OK with TERM=xterm-color while login-mode bash (bash -l) generates the "Type xterm-color unknownwarning and resets ( Read more... )

Recently I developed an urgent need to compile some C stuff on one HP-UX 11.11 host. You know, one of those little wonderful machines,

that have no gmake, no gcc
no bison, flex, or gas,
just a K&R's /usr/bin/cc
and /usr/bin/asThe problem is that I'm not a system administrator of the abovementioned machine, hence I can't install ( Read more... )