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From: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: LightSpeed C 2.15 putchar???
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Date: 23 Feb 88 17:00:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    Feb 23 11:00:00 1988


>Maybe because putchar () takes an int as a passed parameter, instead of a char?
>

>This is the sort of thing that function prototypes (turn that option
>on in your Lightspeed system) are for.

I beg to differ.  Kernighan and Ritchie (p. 42) guarantees that character
arguments are widened to ints.

To quote a wise man:

>The manual, or especially reading Kernighan and Ritchie, the C white
>book, will help.

>Clive Steward
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