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From: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
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Subject: Re: 3.3 C Weirdness
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Date: 26 Sep 90 01:14:11 GMT
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In article <70109@sgi.sgi.com> davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson) 
writes:
> b) the resulting code will defininitely
> not work on our machines if one has
>         int x(float);
>         int x(y) float y; { }

Strange.  I have 15,000 lines of code with stuff like this out the wazoo, 
and it seems to work fine.  Of course, the prototype is visible when the 
function is defined.  Perhaps the compiler does the sensible thing in 
spite of whining about it.

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