Re: [TUHS] Looking for final C compiler by Dennis Ritchie

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk>]

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On 23 July 2018 at 16:12, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk
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>> It seems that Dennis Ritchie wrote a paper 'A Tour through the Unix C
>> Compiler' which is quite useful in understanding the compiler. I have
>> converted the doc to Markdown format as well which makes it easier to
>> read.
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> https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/belllabs-microsite-plan9/7thEdMan/
> bswv7.html
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> ​You might try downloading the PDF or PS versions of the V7 documents from
> amazon.   It seems like a lot less work work and will be a lot easier to
> read.   Also Gnu groff runs on pretty much everything these days, so going
> from the V7 troff sources yourself is not difficult; in fact its pretty
> smart.   Its still the best 'pure document compiler' out there.  And it
> means you can add your additions/ corrections / notes to what Dennis did
> right inline.
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Hi - thank you for the links. I am not familiar with troff; I amanged to
convert to Markdown from a text version.
Here it is:

https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/C/blob/master/docs/ctour.md

Thanks and Regards
Dibyendu

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