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From: thomas%spline.uucp@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Function prototypes (was: miscellaneous unrelated stuff)
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 14:13:31 EDT
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Henry Spencer claims that use of function prototypes is dangerous
because of what may happen if a function prototype is missing in one
environment, but present in another.  Lightspeed C for the Macintosh
has an option that causes it to require function prototypes for all
external functions.  Seems to me that use of this option would prevent
the type of disaster envisioned by Henry.

=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@cs.utah.edu)