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From: tony@mwuk.UUCP (Tony Mountifield)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Problem with TRN 1.0.2 patch (mthreads.h)
Message-ID: <261@mwuk.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 91 13:59:56 GMT
References: <91022.140110DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu> <14946@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: Microware Systems (UK) Ltd., Winchester, UK.
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In article <14946@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <91022.140110DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu> DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) writes:
> >When 'make' hits the line 'cc -c -O -I. mthreads.c', it gets:
> >>"./mthreads.h", line 61: syntax error
> >Line 61 of mthreads.h is:
> >>void dont_read_data(int);
[............]
> My guess is that your compiler does not support prototypes, and thus
> the appropriate declaration in mthreads.h should have been
> 	void dont_read_data();
> Without looking at the code I have no idea why prototypes were being
> used.

I had the same problem, and it is due to an oversight in the declaration.
It shoudl have read:

	void dont_read_data ANSI((int))

ANSI is a macro which either includes or omits the prototypes (compare
the other declarations around the same area).
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