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Re: Interpretation needed Re: function prototypes

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1989 16:56
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In article <12570014@hpclscu.HP.COM> shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
>The debate is whether the parenthesized sentences (especially the one marked
>with "->") apply only to the last combination, or to all three.

All of them, of course.  That paragraph is specifying what it takes for
function interfaces to have compatible types, and the parenthetical
clarifies some aspects of parameter type compatibility, which is a
subissue within the more general function type compatibility issue.
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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: Interpretation needed Re: function prototypes
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Date: 6 Jul 89 16:56:51 GMT
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