Re: prototyping trouble

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From: Gary Levin
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1988 18:32

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Thanks to those who pointed out the relation between the old and new
definitions and the old and new function heads.  The ANSI standard
could have been written more clearly.

Warning:  Borland's interpretation of the ANSI standard is off.  Their
view is that the prototyped definitions (i.e. prototype without the
body) would control the widening effect of BOTH the call and the
function head.  This is convenient, but, as you have shown, wrong.

My apologies for posting to the util group by mistake.  Thought I'd
send the thanks here, but further comments should move to gcc.bug
--

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Gary Levin/Dept of Math & CS/Clarkson Univ/Potsdam, NY 13676/(315) 268-2384
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