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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: using floats in functional prototypes
Message-ID: <11556@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 27 Jan 89 00:22:03 GMT
References: <1989Jan18.092522.14499@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <942@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <942@ubu.warwick.UUCP> geoff@emerald.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
>...  Finally, if you want to do a function prototype for a function with no
>arguments (e.g. main() in your example), the PROTOTYPE should have 'void'
>between the parentheses, but the DEFINITION shouldn't:

I see no reason to make such an exception.  If you've got prototypes, use
them for both declarations and defintions, whether or not the function takes a
positive number of arguments.  In particular,
	int main(void) { return 0; }
is perfectly correct.  The old style (without `void') is obsolescent.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint