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From: afscian@violet.waterloo.edu (Anthony Scian)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: declaration query
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Date: 19 Jun 89 16:59:44 GMT
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This question arose from comp.lang.c:

Is this legal (ANSI)?
int foo( int, int y ) { ... }			(1)

I think this should be legal:
int foo( int, int y );

and combined with this:
int foo( int x, int ) {return(x+y);}

COULD be equivalent to:
int foo( int x, int y ) {return(x+y);}

The grammar allows this but it is not clear to me what (1) means
in isolation.
Can identifiers in prototypes be different than the identifiers 
in the function definition? 
What about?
int test( int, int z );
int test( int x, int y ) {return(x+y);}

Should the compiler keep the identifiers and override them when
the function is defined (declared)?

//// Anthony Scian afscian@violet.uwaterloo.ca afscian@violet.waterloo.edu ////
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