4th and 5th Editions refer to a reference manual. Check out the 4th
Edition man pages:
https://www.tuhs.org//Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v4/
running cc.1 thru nroff reveals:
SEE ALSO
`C reference manual'
The .th macro dates the man page as 03/15/72
I know I learned C by reading the UNIX source code and having some sort of
a reference manual with the 5th edition; but I can not find a document in
my archives. I'll keep looking but I syspect that was lost.
Clem
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On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:20 AM Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
Hello,
Which revisions of the "C Reference Manuals" are known to be out there?
I found this:
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cman.pdf
Which seems to match the one from V6:
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/Research-V6-Snapshot-D…
"C is also available on the HIS 6070 computer at Murray Hill and and on
the IBM System/370 at Holmdel [3]."
But then there's this:
https://www.princeton.edu/ssp/joseph-henry-project/unix-and-c/bell_labs_136…
"C is also available on the HIS 6070 computer ar Hurray Hill, using a
compiler written bu A. Snyder and currently maintained by S. C. Johnson.
A compiler for the IBM System/360/370 series is under construction."
Due to the description of the IBM compiler, it seems to predate the V6
revision.
Both above revisions use the =+ etc operators.
Finally, this version edited by Snyder:
https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/c/c.refman
"In addition to the UNIX C compiler, there exist C compilers for the HIS
6000 and the IBM System/370 [2]."
This version documents both += and =+ operators.