In article <gg29j6$f40$1@aioe.orgAndrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.comwrites:
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That explanation is bogus. Originally you could omit the *type* from
the declaration (it defaulted to int) but you could not omit the complete
declaration, moreover, there should also be a keyword that made it appear
as a declaration. So:
auto unix;
was allowed (it defaulted to int), but plain:
unix;
not, and complete omission also not.
And by the time of that IOCCC omitting the type was also no longer allowed.
Quote:
It seemed pretty authentic to me and it made sense, at least
at the first sight. Now I wonder if this can actually work, given the
right OS.
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The program as given (with "int unix;" added) did indeed work with Unix
on the VAX.
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