Old C code – how to upgrade it?
by mikewarot on Hacker News.
I’ve got this code I’m interested in [1], and asked about 2 years ago, actually. My efforts at patching it didn’t go well, in retrospect. [2] It’s a Forth variant that does typing, and lots of things that normal forth can’t do… likely as powerful as Lisp, I think. It’s become an obsession to get this thing running. I do a wget, unzip, untar, ./configure, make, su make install and it works perfectly… under Debian 3 Anything newer, even with -std=c99, and it dies a horrible death. Taking the executable from Debian 3 to Debian 11 (32 bit) and it works perfectly. How do I, a non-C programmer, who is willing to dump tons of time into it, migrate this code into the year 2022? 1 – https://ift.tt/zQM83OZ 2 – https://ift.tt/JuTsntL