[TUHS] "Notes on the IBM C Compiler" by Mike Lesk

[G. Branden Robinson via TUHS]

At 2026-07-17T12:00:23-0700, Tom Lyon wrote:
> I used groff.
> I was stumped for a long time with the tbl missing '.' problem.
> I was never any good with *roff and all the macros.

The mavens of the groff mailing list stand ready to take on challenges.

I feel like I've gotten good at *roff, but Tadziu Hoffman is a wizard!

Clem let me know that my attachment got scrubbed--incredibly, I didn't
forget to attach it for once--so here it is inline.

--- memo	1976-01-16 09:46:22.000000000 -0600
+++ memo.gbr	2026-07-17 13:41:27.213368183 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+.if \n(GS .ds MH \" empty
 .de mn
 .sp
 .ne 3
@@ -528,7 +529,7 @@
 .ce
 Character Set Variation
 .TS
-l l l l l l
+l l l l l l.
 	Character	KA mode	KB mode	Holmdel	Standard
 \e	backslash	E0	5F	E0	E0
 '	single quote	AE	7D	7D	7D*
@@ -855,9 +856,11 @@
 Uses the location counter for strings being initialized externally
 that may not be mixed with data.  Consider declarations of
 the form
-.ip
+.IP
+.CW
 char *listp[] {"first", "second", "third"};
-.tp
+.R
+.LP
 .mn litloc
 Uses the location counter for literals.  Mixed with either
 code or data.
@@ -890,7 +893,7 @@
 Accept a call from the supervisor program.
 .mn subretrn
 Return for a call received by subsave.
-.mm stackdo
+.mn stackdo
 Define the automatic variable stack.
 .mn prolog
 Entry code for a C routine: defines base

Regards,
Branden
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