Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Help, page 197 K&R !!!
Message-ID: <1989Aug13.213536.15942@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <646@kl-cs.UUCP> <648@kl-cs.UUCP>  <18350@mimsy.UUCP> <10481@smoke.BRL.MIL> <12397@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 21:35:36 GMT

In article <12397@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
>... the pdp11's I and everyone I knew were learning C and
>Unix on all had the single struct member namespace.  As far as I
>know, the pdp11 compilers still do (unless someone has gotten
>energetic in 2.10bsd or the like).

The best pdp11 C compilers were the ones from System V, back when AT&T was
still releasing a pdp11 System V.  (Actually it was more like System IV,
but that's another story...)  They did fix the struct-member namespace.
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