ANSI C prototypes

[Ronald BODKIN]

In article <1906 at necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>Right on!  The function prototypes are just stupid.  I shouldn't have to go:

>    extern gore	*good(const char *vomit);

>to get the functionality of type checking of function arguments.
>The compiler and loader should do it.
	However, one prototype will allow you to automatically coerce
things like ints to longs/floats/doubles or "near" pointers to "far"
pointers, etc.  Also, it is much faster to catch a prototype problem
before linking a large application.
	Ron