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Sunday, February 05, 2012

99 ways to program a hex, Part 28: K&R C, system calls, full buffering

So, how would the version based on system calls have looked in the 80s? You know, probably before the mmap() system call existed? Probably like this, vowel impairments, sorry, vwlmprmnts and all.

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/* Style: K&R, system calls, full buffering */

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define LINESIZE	16

/********************************************************************/

main(argc,argv)
char **argv;
{
	int i,fhin;

	if (argc == 1) {
		hexdmp(0,1);
	} else {
		for (i = 1 ; i < argc ; i++) {
			fhin = open(argv[i],O_RDONLY);
			if (fhin == -1) {
				myperr(argv[i]);
				continue;
			}

			mywrt(1,"-----",5);
			mywrt(1,argv[i],strlen(argv[i]));
			mywrt(1,"-----\n",6);
      
			hexdmp(fhin,1);
			if (close(fhin) < 0) {
				myperr(argv[i]);
			}
		}
	}

	return 0;
}

/************************************************************************/     

char buffer[4096],outbuf[75 * 109];

hexdmp(fhin,fhout)
{
	int off,bytes,count,amount;
	char *pout,*p;

	memset(outbuf,' ',sizeof(outbuf));
	off = count = 0;
	pout = outbuf;

	while((bytes = myread(fhin,(char *)buffer,sizeof(buffer))) > 0) {
		p = buffer;
		for (p = buffer ; bytes > 0 ; ) {
			amount = hexln(&pout,p,bytes,off);
			p += amount;
			bytes -= amount;
			off += amount;
			count++;

			if (count == 109) {
				mywrt(fhout,outbuf,pout - outbuf);
				memset(outbuf,' ',sizeof(outbuf));
				count = 0;
				pout = outbuf;
			}      
		}
	}

	if (pout - outbuf > 0) {
		mywrt(fhout,outbuf,pout - outbuf);
	}
}

/********************************************************************/

hexln(pline,p,bytes,off)
char **pline,*p;
{
	char *line,*dh,*da;
	int count;
  
	line = *pline;
  
	hexout(line,off,8,':');
	if (bytes > LINESIZE) {
		bytes = LINESIZE;
  	}
	
	p += bytes;
	dh = &line[10 + bytes * 3];
	da = &line[58 + bytes];

	for (count = 0 ; count < bytes ; count++) {
		p  --;
		da --;
		dh -= 3;
    
		if ((*p >= ' ') && (*p <= '~')) {
			*da = *p;
		} else {
			*da = '.';
		}

		hexout(dh,(unsigned long)*p,2,' ');
	}

	line[58 + count] = '\n';
	*pline = &line[59 + count];
	return count;
}

/**********************************************************************/  

hexout(dest,value,size,padding)
char *dest;
{
	dest[size] = padding;
	while(size--) {
		dest[size] = (char)((value & 0x0F) + '0');
		if (dest[size] > '9') {
			dest[size] += 7;
		}
		value >>= 4;
	}
}

/************************************************************************/

myperr(s)
char *s;
{
	extern char **sys_errlist;
	extern int sys_nerr;
	int err = errno;

	mywrt(2,s,strlen(s));
	mywrt(2,": ",2);

	if (err > sys_nerr) {
		mywrt(2,"(unknown)",9);
	} else {
		mywrt(2,sys_errlist[err],strlen(sys_errlist[err]));
	}
	mywrt(2,"\n",1);
}

/************************************************************************/

myread(fh,buf,size)
char *buf;
{
	int amount = 0,bytes;

	while(size > 0) {
		bytes = read(fh,buf,size);
		if (bytes < 0) {
			myperr("read()");
			exit(1);
		}
		if (bytes == 0) {
			break;
		}    
		amount += bytes;
		size -= bytes;
		buf += bytes;
	}
	return amount;
}

/*********************************************************************/  

mywrt(fh,msg,size)
char *msg;  
{
	if (write(fh,msg,size) < size) {
		if (fh != 2) {
			myperr("output");
		}
		exit(1);
	}
}

/***********************************************************************/

Actually, the vowel impairment vwlmprmnt code was due to linker strictions at the time—linkers at the time were fairly limited, and one of the limits was the length of identifiers it could handle, a limit of around 6 characters (some might have handled more, but the first C standard in 1989 set the limit to six, so that's probably the smallest size at the time). With only six characters (makes you wonder where that limit comes from) and vowels typically being redundant (“f y cn rd ths y t cn wrt prgrms”) is it any wonder early code was typically vwlmprd?

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