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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: consistency in declaration
Message-ID: <749@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 89 21:42:37 GMT
References: <64@BLEKUL11.BITNET> <263@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <263@maytag.waterloo.edu>, giguere@aries5.uucp (Eric Giguere) writes:
> In article <64@BLEKUL11.BITNET> SAAAA04@BLEKUL11.BITNET writes:
> [ is "void foo(int , int y);" a valid declaration? ]
> 
> Seriously, the ANSI specs state that
> a function prototype can accept types or types with IDs but not both 
> in the same declaration.  So, yes, you do have to be consistent.
> 
> (I should know, I spent a lot of time debugging all the ANSI stuff we put
> into the compiler...)

References, please.  I checked the draft and I don't see anything
that prohibits it.  The relevant part of the grammar is:

	parameter-list:
		parameter-declaration
		parameter-list , parameter-declaration

	parameter-declaration:
		declaration-specifiers declarator
		declaration-specifiers abstract-declarator(opt)

which pretty clearly allows it, and I don't see any constraints
that prohibit it.
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