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From: rhh88@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Heywood RH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Strange things in C v3
Summary: Is this a bug?
Message-ID: <7199@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Mar 91 10:25:15 GMT
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A friend of mine has discovered something a little stange with the ansi
c compiler. It seems that he could only get it to pass a float as a
function param. if he used the new ansi syntax. If he used the old
syntax it gave a compile error. Stange thing is that if he changed his
float to a double it worked. Odd eh! I think this could count as a bug
but I don't want to go round accusing people only to discover it my
fault :-(

Here is the example bit of code for you to try and compile to see :-

void a_function( float );
void other_func( double );

void other_function( distance )
double distance;
{
	printf("%f", distance );
}


void a_function( a_number )
float a_number;
{
	printf("%f", a_number );
}

/* Change first line of this function to 
   void a_function( float a_number )
   to get it to compile. 
*/



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I think that was how it went but I am doing this from memory.
Hope this helps someone
RIK


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