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--- systems:3rd_edition [2023/05/23 09:24] – segaloco
+++ systems:3rd_edition [2023/10/18 17:25] (current) – segaloco
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 "prestruct-c" is a copy of the compiler just before I started changing it to use structures itself. ... [It] implements structures in a way that begins to approach their current meaning. Their declaration syntax seems to use () instead of {}, but . and -> for specifying members of a structure itself and members of a pointed-to structure are both there.
-The files currently listed as [[systems:2nd_edition|Second Edition]] under cmd and lib in the UNIX tree, [[https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V2|V2 Sources]], may represent code closer in character to the Third Edition, given the lack of Extended Arithmetic Element usage.
+The files currently listed as [[systems:2nd_edition|Second Edition]] under cmd and lib in the UNIX tree, [[https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V2|V2 Sources]], may represent code closer in character to the Third Edition, given the lack of Extended Arithmetic Element usage. See [[https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tuhs@tuhs.org/thread/Y5CHHVMQY3JUOKI4PD7OVB4FBD4ILV2O/|this email.]]
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   * An earlier find(I) tool, distinct from the modern one, is removed
   * A manual is produced for the assembler, allowing removal of expository detail in as(I) page
+  * The linker no longer references B or Explor files, presumably dropping support and related libraries
   * The desk calculator dc(I) gains many features
   * The first nroff(I) page on the public record appears