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From: frame!troy!drf@SUN.COM (David Fuchs)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: spurious argument mismatch message?
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Date: 10 Oct 88 20:02:09 GMT
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The following file, compiled with no flags, with GNU-CC version 1.28, gives
the error message:

          foo.c:5: argument `parm' doesn't match function prototype

which appears to be spurious.  Perhaps there is some question about the
what it means to use function prototypes even when the function itself
is declared with "old" syntax; I haven't looked at the standard, but other
compilers seem happy to accept this sort of thing.

Thanks for all the wonderful stuff, by the way.
	-David Fuchs (late of the TeX project, now "frame!drf"@sun.com )

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void foo(short); /* Prototype */

void foo(parm) /* Actual */
short parm;
{
}