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From: rex@aussie.COM (Rex Jaeschke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: ANSI-compatible function declarations with args
Message-ID: <63.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 91 00:36:46 GMT
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Organization: Journal of C Language Translation
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Dave Yost asks:

> #ifdef PROTO
> #define decl_args(x) x
> #else
> #define decl_args(x) ()
> #endif
> 
> Are there any standards for what to call this 'decl_args' macro?

If you are an implementer I have seen only __ used as the name. As a user, 
I use xx. It's short and not too distracting allowing you to still read the 
function declaration around it.

Rex

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