From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Subject: [TUHS] C declarations.
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 11:21:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1705151116010.2058@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170515004019.GJ29107@mcvoy.com>
Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 08:14:47PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
> > The kludge is that it works different than everything else for no really
> > good reason.
>
> I'd be curious what Steve thinks about all this, I know he weighed in
> a bit, but does he think that Dennis / Brian/ Ken regret this design choice?
I wonder how much of it was due to evolving in stages from BCPL, where
everything is a word, and structs and arrays are just pointers (with maybe
an allocation of space for the pointer to point to).
And C couldn't pass structs by value for quite a long time.
Tony.
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-11 21:49 Ron Natalie
2017-05-11 22:01 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-05-11 23:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-11 22:03 ` David Arnold
2017-05-11 22:32 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-11 22:41 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-13 1:24 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-13 2:45 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-13 12:20 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-13 12:35 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-05-13 12:42 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-13 15:36 ` Stephen Kitt
2017-05-14 1:59 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-05-14 2:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-14 4:24 ` Bakul Shah
2017-05-14 6:12 ` Steve Johnson
2017-05-14 6:48 ` Bakul Shah
2017-05-14 23:06 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-14 23:34 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-05-15 0:14 ` Dan Cross
2017-05-15 0:23 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-15 3:43 ` Random832
2017-05-15 0:40 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-15 2:00 ` Nevin Liber
2017-05-15 10:21 ` Tony Finch [this message]
2017-05-15 4:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-15 4:54 ` Bakul Shah
2017-05-15 5:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-15 12:58 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-15 16:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-15 19:00 ` [TUHS] cdecl (Re: " Bakul Shah
2017-05-15 22:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-13 13:46 ` [TUHS] " Hellwig Geisse
2017-05-13 19:08 ` Random832
2017-05-13 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-14 14:48 ` Nemo
2017-05-13 19:05 ` Random832
2017-05-14 13:14 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-05-12 0:15 ` Bakul Shah
2017-05-12 2:41 ` Theo Pavlidis
2017-05-12 14:04 Richard Tobin
2017-05-13 23:11 Richard Tobin
2017-05-15 6:46 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-05-14 14:11 Doug McIlroy
2017-05-14 14:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-05-15 18:47 Steve Johnson
2017-05-15 19:54 ` Bakul Shah
2017-05-16 7:25 ` George Ross
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