Halfix – A portable x86 emulator written in C99

Re:Halfix – A portable x86 emulator written in C99 by rurban on Monday October 10, 2022 @07:51AM (#33150215)

> where configure is a shell script typically built from autoconf which is an abomination

sorry, what is the abomination here?

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Re:Halfix – A portable x86 emulator written in C99 by foldr on Monday October 10, 2022 @07:57AM (#33150256)

Building (hopefully) portable shell scripts out of M4 macros is pretty hairy.

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Re:Halfix – A portable x86 emulator written in C99 by badsectoracula on Monday October 10, 2022 @09:15AM (#33150959)

Portable to what though? Chances are the shell script code generated by Autotools is runnable in more places than Node.js.

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Re:Halfix – A portable x86 emulator written in C99 by bitwize on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:12AM (#33151655)

Nobody cares about your doddering Ultrix system, old-timer.

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Re:Halfix – A portable x86 emulator written in C99 by foldr on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:54AM (#33152975)

Yeah that may well be. I'm just saying that it's a pretty horribly hacky way of making a portable script. It can be made to work, of course.

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