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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with old-style code
Message-ID: <15143@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 9 Feb 91 10:07:51 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.190607.11731@alias.uucp>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Feb6.190607.11731@alias.uucp> rsargent@alias.UUCP (Richard Sargent) writes:
>I have come across a compiler which does something very unusual
>in its handling of old-style functions.

Looks to me like the arguments are default-promoted to widened types,
then assigned to local variables of the declared type in the function
definition.  This is exactly what is SUPPOSED to occur.  What did you
expect?