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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: YAMB (Yet Another Manx Bug in 5.0a)
Message-ID: <16704@estelle.udel.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 90 23:03:07 GMT
References: <16544@estelle.udel.EDU> <738@cameron.cs.duke.edu> <4631@cpoint.UUCP>
Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <4631@cpoint.UUCP> steve@cpoint.UUCP (Stephen Steir) writes:
>It is impossible to predict an argument prototype for a pointer to a >function.  
Not true.  It was just done in the previous post of this thread.
The human can always predict what arguments to pass; how else would he
or she know what to code as arguments?

>'C' compilers have always pushed a short argument as a short
No again.  C compilers have always pushed shorts as ints.  Only if short==int
is that true.

>and the only advantage of a function prototype is to warn the programer
>of mismatched types.  
Bzzzt.  Three strikes!  The prototype is also used to cast constants to
the correct size (I think) and cast vars/expressions to the correct
size after a warning.  Or something like that.

	   -- Darren