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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 10 commandments and the NULL pointer?
Message-ID: <14405@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 9 Nov 90 07:31:15 GMT
References: <2390@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <681@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <681@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> jc@atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel) writes:
>since you used prototypes, you can just as well use
> 	x = do_something(0, 0, 0);

Only if there is a prototype declaration of do_something() in scope;
it is better to not rely on such automatic pointer coercion (available
only under ANSI C) and instead just supply the right types.