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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Prototypes with old style definitions
Message-ID: <2329@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 90 20:48:41 GMT
References: <626@cameron.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <626@cameron.cs.duke.edu> amr@dukee.egr.duke.edu (Anthony M. Richardson) writes:
<	float foo(float, int);
<
<	float foo(x, n)
<	float x;
<	int n;
<	{ ......... }
<what does the standard say about parameter conversions in this case?

"Syntax error!" But seriously, the second definition is equivalent to:

	float foo(tmp,n)
	double tmp;
	int n;
	{	float x = tmp;
		....
	}

Thus the syntax error. This and similar examples bite lots of code that
is being converted to ANSI prototypes.