Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Parameter Types in Old-Style Function Definitions
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.172815.3289@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <10391@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 90 17:28:15 GMT

In article <10391@pt.cs.cmu.edu> hjelm@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Mark Hjelm) writes:
>    f(a, b)
>        float a;
>        char b;
>    {
>
>Is the type of "a" (as seen inside of "f") float or double or either?
>Is the type of "b" char or int or either? 

The types are, in all cases except arrays (which silently turn into
pointers), precisely as declared.  In general, this can involve
conversions as part of the function-entry sequence.
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