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From: hinton@netcom.UUCP (Greg Hinton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Turbo C atexit function.
Summary: Borland needs to test their sample code!
Keywords: Turbo C
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Date: 19 Jun 89 17:49:09 GMT
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In article <166@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> hocker@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Charles C. Hocker) writes:
>	I am using Turbo C 2.0 and am having trouble getting the
>atexit function to work.  I typed in the following program from the
>Turbo C reference guide and could not get it to work....
>....
>
>atexit_t exit_fn1 (void)
>....
>
>atexit_t exit_fn2 (void)
>....
>
>main ()
>{
>  /* posting exit_fn1 */
>  atexit (exit_fn1);
>
>  /* posting exit_fn2 */
>  atexit (exit_fn2);
>  printf ("Main quitting...\n");
>}
>
>When the program is compiled the following error messages are given:
>   Type mismatch in parameter 'func' in call to 'atexit' in function main

This example is taken verbatim from pp. 47-48 of the Reference Manual.

The bug is in the manual, not the compiler or libraries!  Change the type of
exit_fn1() & exit_fn2() to void & all will be well!