Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 16:26:55 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 33 Message-ID: <871qsikdz4.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d9c27cf8ab78254aab5f7a4fc1661a77"; logging-data="1765608"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/xyx+f0XdSfGZ5KcOeBGG4" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zk6NVzpQwy51upY0fiHn39wfWos= sha1:3RNGLMNigU1tAFiQall6I+QFgLo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:86248 comp.lang.c:167591 Manu Raju writes: > On 09/09/2022 18:49, Lynn McGuire wrote: >> "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" >> >> https://www.i-programmer.info/news/184-cc/15705-richard-stallman-announces-c-reference.html >> >> >> "Richard Stallman (RMS) is a controversial figure - you either like or >> dislike him - but you have to assume he knows his C. So an >> announcement that he has a book on the subject is interesting." >> >> "As you might guess, being the founder of the Free Software >> Foundation, Stallman's book is free to download, but at this stage you >> will have to do some work if you want to read it and it seems to be >> still in beta. The text contains requests for comments." >> >> I did not know that RS wrote the first gcc compiler. >> >> Lynn > > How is this different from this file? > > That's a manual for the GNU C preprocessor. This new document is about the C language (with a strong emphasis on the gcc variant). It's intended to incorporate the preprocessor manual. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com Working, but not speaking, for Philips void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */