From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 02:13:38 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] speaking of early C compilers In-Reply-To: <20141027144833.536A618C0A5@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20141027144833.536A618C0A5@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Noel Chiappa wrote: > So when I see these funky declarations (e.g. "int *p" for something > that's _only_ going to be used to point to a "struct file"), I just > cringe - even though I sort of understand (see above) why it's like > that. It's probably the thing I would most change, if I could. What, as opposed to spelling creat() with an "e"? -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server." http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there)