Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!homxb!hound!rkl1
From: rkl1@hound.UUCP (K.LAUX)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Undeclared function arguments
Message-ID: <2686@hound.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 88 17:30:42 GMT
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	YYBACK (i, m)
	int i;
	{
	...
	}

	The reason that 'm' was not declared was that the body of the
function did not reference the variable at all *AND* it was the last
parameter in the formal argument list.  Since arguments are pushed on
the stack from *right* to *left*, there was no need to know its size.

	It would be a different case if:

	YYBACK (i, m, n)
	
	and only i and n were referenced because now the compiler would
*have* to know the size of m in order to correctly reference n on the stack.

--rkl