Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Suspicious Pointer Conversion joke
Message-ID: <1988Aug9.164140.703@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1613@spdcc.COM>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 88 16:41:40 GMT

In article <1613@spdcc.COM> eli@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Elias) writes:
>somehow, i don't think that's what K & R had in mind; 
>did the original C (B?) compilers issue this warning, as well ?

No, mostly because type checking was much looser in those days.  Actually,
as late as V7 (when the type structure was starting to be fairly strict),
this message did not exist.
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