More fun and games with gcc, A/UX, and porting MPW code.

[David G. Paschich]

In article <D88-JWA.91Jun12173800 at byse.nada.kth.se>,
	 d88-jwa at byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:


   > djp862 at anu.oz.au ("David J Peterson") writes:

      Take a look at the following if that didn't make sense, its a simple
      program and the output, or errors from gcc.

      void printtest(long, int, short, char, char *);

      void printtest(l, i, s, c, cp)
	      long	l;
	      int	i;
	      short	s;
	      char	c;
	      char	*cp;
      {

   The right and correct way is to change the definition to:

   void
   printtest ( long l , int i , short s , char c , char * cp )
   {


... the reason being that the function prototype is ansi-style, so the
compiler assumes that the arguments will actually be of the indicated
size.  Then your function definition uses an old-style function
definition, in which the compiler assumes that anything smaller than
an int will promote to an int.

The solution:  If you're going to use ansi-style prototypes, then use
ansi-style definitions.

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