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From: leipold@eplrx7.uucp (Walt Leipold)
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Subject: Think C, MacHeaders, and 'Require prototypes'?
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Date: 4 Jan 91 21:27:25 GMT
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I've run into a problem with Think C 4.  When using the 'require
prototypes' flag, I found some functions (e.g., GetItemMark, SetItemMark,
ParamText, ...) whose arguments did not get coerced properly.  Digging a
little deeper, I found that these functions had no prototypes in *any* of
the .h files in the "Mac #includes" folder.  However, the compiler didn't
complain about missing prototypes, so the precompiled MacHeaders must know
something about these functions.  Is MacHeaders more than the sum of its
parts?  Or is there some set of functions for which the compiler ignores
the 'require prototypes' flag?

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"When dealing with the insane,                                Walt Leipold
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