[m-rev.] diff: string.m MC++ to C#

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-Nov-2003, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> 
> library/string.m:
> 	Convert the MC++ code to C#.

Thanks.

By the way, I recently discovered another reason to avoid using MC++:
according to Rhys Weatherspoon (of Portable.NET fame), Microsoft's MC++
implementation generates IL code which will not work on big-endian
systems:

 | 	Global variables are laid out in .data sections, as if they were
 | 	flat byte arrays, and there is insufficient type information
 | 	to determine what the original contents were to byte-swap or
 | 	re-align.

I suppose it's probably OK if you don't use (initialized?) global variables,
and AFAIK we don't, but still, it's a worry.

-- 
Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.oz.au>  |  "I have always known that the pursuit
The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
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