Re: spurious argument mismatch message?

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From: Roland McGrath
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 03:15

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When a function is defined with traditional syntax:
	void func(x)
	short int x; { ... }
The `short int' gets widened to an `int'.

A prototype declaration containing a `short int' argument says that the
argument should not be widened.
--
	Roland McGrath

roland@wheaties.ai.mit.edu, mit-eddie!wheaties.ai.mit.edu!roland

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From: mcgrath@tully.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath)
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Subject: Re: spurious argument mismatch message?
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