🚀 go-pugleaf

 Terry writes

> It't nice to see that compilers are getting smarter (I'm
> continually bitten at work where we don't have a
> prototyping compiler), but it'd be nice if the IBM
> compiler would have told me it was the type of the
> parameters of my function, not the parameters of the API
> function.

As an interesting side note, the IBM compiler on AIX
RS/6000 (you have to be specific :-), has a feature that
allows *link-time* checking of function parameter values.
Really great for those extra-large projects that have to
remain in portable standard C.

(Should I mention the fact that it's effectively a
requirement because of a combination of the architecture
and the optimizer's passing of variables through
registers?)

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