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From: hardin@hpindda.cup.hp.com (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Can you prototype main()  ?????
Message-ID: <6170027@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
Date: 22 Sep 90 00:09:45 GMT
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> Hummm... This looks like yet another one of these little C incompatabilities
> which didn't quite make it into the list of the incompatabilities in
> chapter 18.
> 
> My favorite one is illustrated by the following example:
> 
> 	void foobar (int irritating)
> 	{
> 		int irritating;
> 	}
> 
> Put that in your C++ compiler!  Then look for this in chapter 18.  It ain't
> there.
> 
> // Ron Guilmette  -  C++ Entomologist
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Sorry, perhaps I'm just being dense today, but I don't get your point.
When I put the above code through an ANSI C compiler I get

   "x.c", line 3: warning: redeclaration of 'irritating' hides formal parameter

while I get the following when I put it through my C++ compiler:

   CC: "x.C", line 3: error 1031: two declarations of irritating

Could you please clarify?

Thanks.

John Hardin
hardin@hpindgh.hp.com
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