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From: mcgrath@tully.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: Re: spurious argument mismatch message?
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Date: 14 Oct 88 03:15:08 GMT
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In-reply-to: frame!troy!drf@SUN.COM's message of 10 Oct 88 20:02:09 GMT

When a function is defined with traditional syntax:
	void func(x)
	short int x; { ... }
The `short int' gets widened to an `int'.

A prototype declaration containing a `short int' argument says that the
argument should not be widened.
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	Roland McGrath

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