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From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: C SYNTAX QUESTION
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Date: 9 Apr 90 20:50:20 GMT
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somenone pointed out that with my recetly posted C-compiler, the
funcion
test(a) char a;
{
write (1,&a,1);
}
passes a pointer to an integer to write (since a is really an integer)
write emits something else than you'd expected - it is easy to ,,fix''
in the compiler, BUT WHAT ABOUT
test(a) float a;
{
test1(&a);
}
This certainly passes a pointer to a double, and this can't be changed.
So I ask the C Syntax experts - what do you think a compiler should do
in both cases?
C.v.W.