'missing 'prototype'? (turbo c)

Suvajit Gupta sgupta at geo4.rdrc.rpi.edu
Tue Jan 16 11:13:22 AEST 1990


In article <6746 at ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> VANCLEEF at ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>i am getting a weird warning using turbo c. basically my calls
>to subroutines are getting the warning about a
>'missing prototype to function ...'
>
>what does this mean? it looks like everything is defined correctly?
>

Probably you are using the old pre-ANSI style of function declarations.
This makes the compiler complain about missing prototypes.  To avoid this
warning, you could either shut the compiler up about missing protypes, or
better define your functions using the ANSI style.
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