strcpy & declaration of functions

[Jitendra Apte]

In article <4400001 at tdpvax> scott at tdpvax.UUCP writes:
>
>This is for all you standards nuts out there.  When declaring FUNCTIONS which 
>is better.   
>extern int  atoi();
>extern char *foo();
>or
>int  atoi();
>char *foo();
>They seem to be equivalent and I have found no mention in K&R.

I am not a standards nut, but when baffled by the same question a few months
ago, I picked up K&R1 and sure enough, on pp192-193 we find the following about
declarations :

"At most one sc-specifier may be given in a declaration. If the sc-specifier is
missing from a declaration, it is taken to be `auto' inside a function,
`extern' outside. Exception : functions are never automatic".

PS. `sc-specifiers' are auto, static, extern, register and typedef.

>From the above, I concluded that the two forms of declaring functions are
completely equivalent.

Jitendra.
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