From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] C++ / Kernel
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:58:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W7EhwTdJSpYLyoz5rEGUWuRTdEpB9LyZVMuLoY7W=rkdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <151301d43b2f$07881ed0$16985c70$@ronnatalie.com>
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 6:17 PM <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Void* came out with the V7 compiler, if I recall properly. The BSD kernel
> looks as if it requires such a later compiler (it uses bit fields which the
> earlier compilers didn't support).
> But it doesn't matter. You are right char* (or caddr_t) would work just
> fine for this albeit with some explicit casting.
>
This appears to be incorrect, unfortunately. I just tested on the PDP-11/70
running 7th Edition at the Living Computer Museum (I've got an account
there) and it appears that neither `cc` nor `pcc` understand `void`.
Perhaps Steve Johnson can chime in on this? I suspect he'd know the history
here well.
- Dan C.
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
2018-08-23 23:29 Noel Chiappa
2018-08-23 23:42 ` ron
2018-08-24 0:30 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-24 2:05 ` Bakul Shah
2018-08-24 12:21 ` ron
2018-08-24 1:27 Noel Chiappa
2018-08-24 2:52 ` Clem cole
2018-08-24 7:30 Paul Ruizendaal
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