Prototypes with old style definitions

[Walter Bright]

In article <626 at cameron.cs.duke.edu> amr at dukee.egr.duke.edu (Anthony M. Richardson) writes:
<	float foo(float, int);
<
<	float foo(x, n)
<	float x;
<	int n;
<	{ ......... }
<what does the standard say about parameter conversions in this case?

"Syntax error!" But seriously, the second definition is equivalent to:

	float foo(tmp,n)
	double tmp;
	int n;
	{	float x = tmp;
		....
	}

Thus the syntax error. This and similar examples bite lots of code that
is being converted to ANSI prototypes.