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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI prototype confusion
Message-ID: <14681@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 7 Dec 90 19:34:27 GMT
References: <4559@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <4559@idunno.Princeton.EDU> byron@astro.Princeton.EDU (Byron Rakitzis) writes:
>        void qsort(void *, int, int, int (*)(void *, void *));
>This is okay, except that gcc then complains if strcmp or any
>function not taking (void *, void *) as arguments is passed to qsort.

It SHOULD complain, since internally qsort() is going to be passing void*
arguments to the function, so it had better be defined with compatible
argument types.