Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!egsneb
From: egsneb@killer.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: ANSI C
Keywords: ANSI C
Message-ID: <3072@killer.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 88 16:01:25 GMT
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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I'm having problems understanding a subtle point in the new ANSI standard
with respect to the handling of function prototypes and function declarations
using the old style argument declaration method.  Note the following code
fragment:


		void f(int,short,char);


		void f(i,s,c)
		int i;
		short s;
		char c;
		{ ... }

Are the formal parameters s and c promoted to int?  What if there were no
function prototype in scope, are they promoted then?  How is this impacted
by the semantics of actual argument passing when no prototype is in scope?

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