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From: throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: prototypes, NULL, and magic
Summary: is exec(2) family covered?
Message-ID: <1490@sheol.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 91 03:37:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.234219.22867@cbnewsj.att.com> <1991Mar20.174710.4405@zoo.toronto.edu> <11202@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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- torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek)
- But alas, the new BSD man pages are going to continue to talk blithely
- about `NULL' as if the compiler worked magic.  Fortunately, in this case
- all the new man pages will say
-        #include <foo.h>
- and <foo.h> will contain all the necessary prototypes, so if you follow
- the man page, you will have a prototype in scope, and the compiler *will*
- work magic....

Remembering what Chief Dan George's character said about magic in Little
Big Man, I am moved to ask: what about the execl(2) family of functions,
or other like (varargs) cases? (Gosh, I hope this answer isn't in the
FAQ...  I don't recall it from my last reading anyway...)
--
Wayne Throop  ...!mcnc!dg-rtp!sheol!throopw