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From: Christopher-Vance@adfa.oz.au
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Subject: Re: prototypes required ?
Keywords: printf stdargs prototypes
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Date: 17 Oct 90 23:26:26 GMT
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gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
| Yes, you definitely must have a prototype in scope before calling a
| variable-argument function in a strictly conforming program.

Which means that gcc -ansi on a Pyramid cannot compile such a thing. I am
informed that the only way to make printf work is to *omit* the prototype.