Re: [TUHS] Cornelius Keck

[Caipenghui <Caipenghui_c@163.com>]

On August 22, 2018 5:37:43 AM GMT+08:00, Cornelius Keck <ckeck@texoma.net> wrote:
> Early C-compilers didn't care much about prototypes. The default return
> type of a function would be an int. It was up to the code's author to
> pass the right (amount, order, type). The linker didn't care about
> signatures as long as the symbol resolved.
>
>
> What one did need were struct definitions and macros, such as getchar,
> putchar, min, max, abs, because they might not be provided by some
> library, causing link to fail.
>
>
> Back then one could get away with constructs creative enough to make a
> modern compiler blow a gasket, and it would all run just fine, as long
> as one didn't accidentally drop a bunch of bits when typecasting, and
> sizeof(int) = sizeof(int*).
>
>
> Those were interesting times. I do miss them.
>
>
>
> Gesendet von meinem BlackBerry 10-Smartphone.
>
> Von: Caipenghui
>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. August 2018 00:12
>
> An: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
>
> Betreff: [TUHS] About Unix header files
>
>
> Hello everyone
>
> Hello everyone, I have a question, I looked at the source code of early
> Unix, found that a lot of.c files did
> not contain header files, so compiler compiler will not error?
>
> Caipenghui

We miss DMR. DMR is dead, but we
will not forget his contribution to
humanity. We will learn a simple humorous spirit of DMR. Not only did he teach us to code, he seemed to convey a human spirit. DMR also conveys the spirit of Unix philosophy, such as kiss.do a thing, do it well, etc.

Caipenghui