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From: dmr@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: New K&R edition
Message-ID: <7751@alice.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 06:52:09 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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Someone just got a blurb from Prentice-Hall advertising a second edition
of the White Book.  I guess P-H is doing their job!

Next to me is a warm-off-the-press copy of that very book,
delivered today by our editor.  I'm assured that bulk shipments will
start in a couple of weeks.

	The C Programming Language, second edition
	B. W. Kernighan and D. M. Ritchie
	Prentice-Hall, 1988
	ISBN 0-13-110362-8  (paper)	$28.00   272 pages
	ISBN 0-13-110370-9  (cloth)	$40.00

Overall the structure resembles that of the first edition, but
it has been thoroughly overhauled.  The language it describes is
that of the ANSI X3J11 draft of December*.  It has new examples
(including a simple version of cdecl), more discussion of pointers, 
a list of changes from the original language, discussions of
language changes interleaved into the reference manual, a YACCable
grammar, and a description of the ANSI library routines.

The cover is still white.

The first edition remains in print.
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* "noalias" is mentioned only in footnotes.


		Dennis Ritchie