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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint diagnostic
Message-ID: <6930@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 6 Jan 88 01:48:06 GMT
References: <365@osupyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <365@osupyr.UUCP> gae@osupyr.UUCP (Gerald Edgar) writes:
>void
>defmach(lo)
>  int lo;
[...]
>  defmach(65535);
[...]
>defmach, arg. 1 used inconsistently	x.c(6)  ::  x.c(13)

You passed it a long (65535 on a 16-bit machine) but it expects an int.