26 Jan
2002
26 Jan
'02
8:50 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:27:25AM -0700, M. Warner
Losh wrote:
gcc can compile K&R, but the language has evolved some since the v7
days. =*, =+, etc became *=, +=, etc. There are some other subtle
things too that I don't recall off the top of my head, but which vexed
the comp.lang.c news groups in the early 1980's.
I'm fairly sure things like "=+" and so on were replaced with
"+="
in the move from V6 to V7. I think structure assignments were added
here too, and the much more obscure, being able to declare passed
arguments in the function preamble as "register." I believe K&R
reflects the C language as seen with V7...
-- Ken