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From: <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: "'Noel Chiappa'" <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>, <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] C++ / Kernel
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 19:42:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <160c01d43b3a$ef02ff40$cd08fdc0$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180823232936.8F04818C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

Void probably showed up their first as well    It was more like modern C
than the V6 compiler.

-----Original Message-----
From: TUHS <tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org> On Behalf Of Noel Chiappa
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 7:30 PM
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] C++ / Kernel

    > From: Ron Natalie

    > The BSD kernel looks as if it requires such a later compiler (it uses
    > bit fields which the earlier compilers didn't support).

Umm, minor nit: bit fields were added to/as of 'Typesetter C', which I
gather was intermediate between V6 and V7.

	Noel


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-23 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-23 23:29 Noel Chiappa
2018-08-23 23:42 ` ron [this message]
2018-08-24  0:30   ` Clem Cole
2018-08-24  2:05     ` Bakul Shah
2018-08-24 12:21     ` ron
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-08-24  7:30 Paul Ruizendaal
2018-08-24  1:27 Noel Chiappa
2018-08-24  2:52 ` Clem cole
2018-08-23 14:42 ron
2018-08-23 17:24 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-23 20:21 ` Bakul Shah
2018-08-23 22:17   ` ron
2018-08-23 22:28     ` Nevin Liber
2018-08-23 22:48       ` Clem Cole
2018-08-23 23:14     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-08-24 14:13       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-08-24 14:32         ` ron
2018-08-24 18:15           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-08-26 16:34             ` Paul Winalski
2018-08-27 16:31               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-08-24  1:41     ` Bakul Shah
2018-08-24 10:41       ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-24 12:17       ` ron
2018-08-24 18:36         ` Bakul Shah
2018-08-24 18:38           ` ron
2018-08-24  1:58     ` Dan Cross
2018-08-24  3:04       ` Clem cole
2018-08-24 14:01         ` Dan Cross
2018-08-24 13:22 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-08-24 16:59   ` Steffen Nurpmeso

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