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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: typechecking
Keywords: typechecking, lint
Message-ID: <9335@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Jan 89 08:33:31 GMT
References: <19620@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <19620@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> thoth@banana.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>fprintf("%s : line %d : colon expected.\n",filename,linenumber); 
>Turbo catches this and gcc doesn't.

I'm somewhat surprised that GCC doesn't catch this, since the
correct prototype in <stdio.h> would be
	int fprintf(FILE *, const char *, ...);
and the compiler should be able to validate the first two argument types.