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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Parameter Types in Old-Style Function Definitions
Keywords: parameter, function
Message-ID: <2689@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 90 01:30:57 GMT
References: <10391@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <10391@pt.cs.cmu.edu> hjelm@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Mark Hjelm) writes:
<What is the compiler allowed/required to do for this:
<    f(a, b)
<        float a;
<        char b;
<    {
<    }

It is semantically equivalent to:
	f(atmp,btmp)
	double atmp;
	int btmp;
	{	float a = atmp;
		char b = btmp;

		....
	}