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From: jrv@sdimax2.mitre.org (VanZandt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C prototypes
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Date: 27 Nov 90 19:29:20 GMT
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In article <75@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> utility@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Ronald BODKIN) writes:
>In article <1906@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>>Right on!  The function prototypes are just stupid.  I shouldn't have to go:
>
>>    extern gore	*good(const char *vomit);

Speaking of which, qsort() requires a comparison routine declared as

	int sort_function( const void *a , const void *b )

Is there a convenient way to write such functions without using a cast for
every reference to a or b?  Copying their values into local pointers of the
appropriate type seems a kludge.  I suppose I could avoid #including stdlib.h,
and declare the arguments to be whatever type I liked.

                             - Jim Van Zandt