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From: derstad@cim-vax.honeywell.com ("DAVE ERSTAD")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: CC Bug?
Message-ID: <9010170052.AA00467@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 90 01:52:00 GMT
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OK, campers, here's yet another (probable)  compiler bug.  This time, it's CC:
     
     test(int a,)
     {
     printf("Hello");
     }
     
     main()
     {
        test();
     }

The above program is syntactically incorrect.  The prototype for
test has an extraneous comma.  However, CC compiles this with
no errors and no warnings.

If one gets the info messages out (how many people actually do?)
it turns out that the compiler doesn't think a prototype exists:

   ******** Line 4: [Information #213]  No prototype in scope, default prototype "test(...)"
            assumed.

We ran into this due to a cut-and-pasted prototype which had such
an extraneous comma.  Finding the source of our illegal address
problem was less than fun.

The question:  Is there any reason why CC should be accepting the 
above code as legal?

Dave Erstad
Honeywell SSEC
DERSTAD@cim-vax.honeywell.com