Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rlgvax!guy
From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Function pointer syntax peculiarity
Message-ID: <269@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 02:52:59 EST
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.269
Posted: Fri Nov 30 02:52:59 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 05:49:56 EST
References: <396@ucsfcgl.UUCP> <1178@bbncca.ARPA>
Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA
Lines: 16

>     The ability to use functions and function pointers interchangeably looks
> like it's probably a Berkloid modification.

Umm, people, *please* remember that just because 4.2BSD supports something
and PDP-11 V7, or System III, or System V, or whatever UNIX you have doesn't
does *NOT* mean "Berkeley did it".  4.2BSD (and 4.1BSD) basically have the
System III VAX PCC, so if the VAX PCC does something and the Ritchie
compiler doesn't, chances are very good that it's a generic PCC change
(excepting things that are obviously specific to the VAX PCC implementation).
"ftime", and "ioctl(TIOC<whatever>)", and the DBM library, and lots of other
things are V7isms, not Berkelyisms (excepting those "ioctl"s that Berkeley
added - there's no obvious way to tell which are Berkeleyisms and which
aren't except by reading the manual).

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy