From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com (Dennis Ritchie)
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:57:18 -0400
Subject: [pups] Re: v7 crypt(3)
Message-ID: <b6c42688e4f3dcaa8756e4722a996756@plan9.bell-labs.com>

Following up Toomey's and Davidson's notes
(didn't see Garcia's):

It does appear that the early-distributed v7 didn't
require = in initializers.  A slightly later version
of the original 11 C compiler did; the lines Davidson quoted,

	if (o!=ASSIGN)
		peeksym = o;

were replaced by

		if (o!=ASSIGN) {
			error("Declaration syntax");
			peeksym = o;
		}

bringing it into conformity with K&R1, which
did require the =.

Incidentally, if anyone wants to try the v7 crypt(3),
the 'encrypt' routine has an implicit, and unwarranted,
assumption that the L and R arrays are adjacent in storage
and thus that L can be oversubscripted to access R.
This was fixed at some (surprisingly late) point too.

	Dennis