As I said I’m not sure but I thought I remember them being there. I no longer have that
distribution tape so I cannot diff it.
If i recall the order the three Ritchie compilers we had that supported stdio were
typesetter, Unix/TS and then finally 7th Edition. I remember they we all slightly
different but don’t remember what they the differences were.
As Steve has previously said Dennis was constantly improving the compiler, so I suspect it
was just the state of the world when those snapshots were taken.
The big changes to the language were between 6th Edition and Typesetter which were done in
concert if not to support Brian’s work on the troff rewrite. Plus the first draft of book
was being written around then also.
The book definitely predates 7th edition’s release which I date because we did not get
Seventh Edition until spring 79 and Ted had xeroxgraphic copies of the book at least a
year earlier, which was when we were running TS which he had brought from the Labs.
Clem
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Aug 23, 2018, at 9:27 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
From: Clem
Cole
Im pretty sure I remember void being in
typesetter C also.
Hmm. In the two original 'help' files I have about the changes to C (the term
'typesetter C' doesn't appear, but it's pretty clear that's what
the subject
is), available through here:
http://gunkies.org/wiki/Typesetter_C
the term 'void' does not appear (although most other stuff - e.g. unions, bit
fields, typedef, yadda yadda - does).
Noel