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- From: Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't this compile?
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:38:31 -0600
- Organization: crystalball.com
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- References: <4igck9$idj@masala.cc.uh.edu> <fcusack-1803960606510001@mudskipper.cac.psu.edu> <827450596snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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- Lawrence Kirby wrote:
- >
- > In article <fcusack-1803960606510001@mudskipper.cac.psu.edu>
- > fcusack@tdx.org "frank." writes:
- > >> Here's the function header line:
- > >> char evalchar(cnum)
- > >> int cnum;
- > >>
- > >Are they actually teaching you this? This is not ANSI C, and you should
- > >complain vehemently.
- >
- > Actually it is perfectly legal ANSI C, it just isn't a prototype (and
- > should be discouraged).
- >
-
- Yep, officially obsolescent (Clause 6.9.5).
- His statement might be true in ten years or so. 8-)
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