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From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 3.3 C Weirdness
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Date: 26 Sep 90 15:25:00 GMT
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In article <803@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:
>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.

Yes, you are quite right.  My mistake.  However it's still not
a good idea to do this, since it is a clear violation of the ANSI C standard.

{Apologies for the earlier misinformation....}
[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)335-1548  davea@sgi.com ]
[``What can go wrong?''                          --Calvin and Hobbes]