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From: liberte@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: LSC Toolbox prototypes?
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Date: 17 Dec 88 01:31:00 GMT
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Nf-From: zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu!liberte    Dec 16 19:31:00 1988


I am using LSC 3.0 with Require Prototypes turned on.  This is great
for all the functions I define.  But prototypes are not required or
provided for the Toolbox routines, except for a few functions that
return non-ints.  This is terrible.  I expected THINK to include
Toolbox prototypes with LSC.

I was getting crashes (very annoying) and suspected I was missing some
'&' somewhere.  So I declared a few prototypes for Toolbox routines
that have var parameters, like SetPt.  Well, sure enough, it was
an argument to SetPt.

LSC only provides partial checks of Toolbox routine calls.  If an
actual argument is the same size as the formal argument, then LSC lets
it go.  This is not nearly enough checking.  C is a dangerous language
(should have been called noose), but I am forced to use it, so I would
like to use all the safty features I can.  

So, does anyone have prototypes built for all the Toolbox routines?
Please post!  This would be a very valuable time saver.

Dan LaLiberte
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu