Suspicious Pointer Conversion joke

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Wed Aug 10 02:41:40 AEST 1988


In article <1613 at spdcc.COM> eli at 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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