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From: jefft@chirality.rsa.com (Jeff Thompson)
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Subject: short int in GNU cc
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Date: 11 Mar 91 21:37:03 GMT
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Hi there,

I want to use prototyping in my NeXT GNU C program for a function which 
takes a short int as an argument, such as:

int MyFunc (short int);

int MyFunc (x)
short int x;
{
}

I get the error: 
  argument `x' doesn't match function prototype
  a formal parameter type that promotes to `int' can match only `int' in
    the prototype.

How can I keep using prototypes without having to change all my functions to
pass `int' instead of `short int' ?

Thanks in advance,
Jeff Thompson