Func Protos with K&R Func Defs

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Sat Mar 2 09:53:54 AEST 1991


In article <15354 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> This is not true.  The types must be compatible, but subject to that
> constraint the use of "old-style definitions" is compatible with the
> use of prototypes.

Only if the prototype is in scope when it sees the definition. The compiler
might generate a different calling sequence for prototyped functions because
it knows the argument count.
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