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From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (terry)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: C declaration styles
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Date: 24 Mar 88 04:47:52 GMT
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In article <5699@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, ajmyrvold@violet.waterloo.edu (Alan Myrvold) writes:
} I need help porting C programs around.
} 
} When I write my C functions on my personal computer, my declarations
} are often like this :
} 
}           void foo(int x, double y)

} When I want to run my programs on UNIX, my declarations need to be
} like this :
} 
}           #define void
}           void foo(x,y)
}           int x;
}           double y;

Ahhhh, the pitfalls of the emerging ANSI "standard" :-(.

The answer is simple, really.  Don't use the first method until it IS a
standard.

				terry@wsccs