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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Prototyping char parameters in ANSI C
Message-ID: <1519@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 1 May 89 19:39:52 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>In any case I know I do.  :-)  But I thought that in the new ANSI C (not old--
>NEW!) you could effectively circumvent this behavior and request that small
>types be received by the called function as a true char (or float, or
>whatever), size and all.

You can.

>So, I shall now ask: How do you tell the compiler that you want this *NEW*
>behavior?  If a full prototype isn't good enough, what is?

A full prototype *is* good enough.  The problem is that the code given
in the example doesn't have a full prototype *definition* of the
function; you have to define it as:

	void f(char c)
	{
		...
	}