26 Jan
2002
26 Jan
'02
2:50 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
27 Jan
27 Jan
11:58 p.m.
New subject: So now that the source is finally out...
On Saturday, 26 January 2002 at 9:50:21 -0500, Ken Wellsch wrote:
I thought so too, but I checked, and there are some still in there.
Greg
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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. 
31 Jan
31 Jan
12:29 a.m.
New subject: So now that the source is finally out...
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:28:29AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
Indeed, I remember those well, when we had to bootstrap the compiler
on a PDP-11 running RSX-11M.
Joerg
I'm
fairly sure things like "=+" and so on were replaced with "+="
in the move from V6 to V7.
I thought so too, but I checked, and there are some still in there.
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