using floats in functional prototypes

[Geoff Rimmer]

In article <1989Jan18.092522.14499 at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> romwa at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Royal Ontario Museum) writes:

>---------tst.c-------------------------------------------------
>	#include <stdio.h>
>
>	void afunc( float );
>
>	void main( void )
>	{
>  		float flt_val = 6.5;
>
>  		afunc( flt_val );
>	}
>
>
>---------tst2.c------------------------------------------------
>	#include <stdio.h>
>
>	void afunc( float );
>
>	void afunc( flt_val )
>		float flt_val;
>
>	{
>  		int i;
>  		i = 3;
>	}

The problem is that you are using the old way of defining the function
afunc().  You should the new method:

	void afunc(float flt_val)
	{
	...
	}

BTW, rather than have to repeat the function prototype in both source
files, put it once in tst2.h, and get both tst.c and tst2.c to
#include "tst2.h".  Finally, if you want to do a function prototype
for a function with no arguments (e.g. main() in your example), the
PROTOTYPE should have 'void' between the parentheses, but the
DEFINITION shouldn't:

e.g., rewriting your tst.c

	#include <stdio.h>

	void afunc(float);
	void main(void); /* prototype  */
	void main()      /* definition */
	{
  		float flt_val = 6.5;

  		afunc( flt_val );
	}

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			geoff at uk.ac.warwick.emerald

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