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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Use of keyword ``auto'' in function prototypes
Keywords: auto prototype parameter storage class
Message-ID: <9720@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Feb 89 02:39:32 GMT
References: <8249@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8249@paris.ics.uci.edu> Doug Schmidt <schmidt@siam.ics.uci.edu> writes:
>   Can someone ``in the know'' please inform me whether ANSI C *forbids*
>the appearance of the keyword ``auto'' in function prototypes, i.e.:
>int foo (auto int bar);

If a parameter declaration includes a storage class specifier,
it must be "register".  The storage class specifier is ignored if
the declaration is not part of the function definition.