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seebs@intran.xerox.com (Peter Seebach) writes:

> The declaration
> =09int foo(void a[2]) {
> =09}
> is perfectly correct, and declares foo to take a *pointer to void* as
> an argument.  gcc -ansi -pedantic -Wall should not reject it.  (I could
> easily see a warning as appropriate, but the message
> >t.c:3: declaration of `a' as array of voids
> is clearly not correct; no parameter is ever an array.)

Personally, I think the error message correct: one declares the types
of ones' arguments, and that arrays get converted to pointers is a
technicality.  At least this is the way I feel it should be, which, of
course, signifies nothing.

So I presume somebody ought to whip out some standard and quote it so
as to make us all happy.


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