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Article #650Re: ANSI C draft
From: epmcmanus
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 17:33
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 17:33
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In article <4449@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk>, Lindsay F. Marshall writes: > In article <2615@netmbx.UUCP> martini@netmbx.UUCP (Martin Ibert) writes: >>Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie: >>The C programming language, second edition [...] > Whatever you do, DO NOT buy this as a reference for ANSI C at the > moment!!!!! There are errors in this as they guessed wrong about the > standard. There is a fixed version coming out, so make sure you get > that one. This is not good advice. Dennis Ritchie recently said in comp.std.c that there was a new revision coming out, but that the changes were only minor. Almost nobody will be affected by them. (Removing the cursory references to the abortive "noalias" keyword and so on.) He also said that a list of the changes would be posted there. -- Eamonn McManus emcmanus@cs.tcd.ie uunet!mcvax!cs.tcd.ie!emcmanus
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 164d81,da1833d0fb60eb9c X-Google-Attributes: gid164d81,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1989-04-21 02:19:01 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcvax!ukc!tcdcs!csvax1!epmcmanus From: epmcmanus@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie Newsgroups: eunet.followup Subject: Re: ANSI C draft Summary: K & R II is fine Keywords: Kernighan Ritchie ANSI C Message-ID: <43296@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie> Date: 27 Apr 89 17:33:36 GMT References: <1989Apr15.163754.7354@isy.liu.se> <2615@netmbx.UUCP> <4449@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk> Reply-To: Eamonn McManus <emcmanus@cs.tcd.ie> Distribution: eunet Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin Lines: 17 Posted: Thu Apr 27 18:33:36 1989