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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Prototyping promotion problem.
Message-ID: <14331@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 90 19:19:58 GMT
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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Could someone explain what the heck I am supposed to do about the
following? It seems to me that if your prototype matches the
declaration, everything should be hunky dory.

1. Is this problem typical to all ANSI C compilers?
2. The variable *must* be char. What am I supposed to do?

(prototypes.h)
int addusage(char *name, char type, char *args, char *usage);

(function def, this file includes prototypes.h)
addusage(name, type, args, usage)
char *name;
char type;
char *args;
char *usage;
{
	etc.
}

(error message)
	gcc -g -pg  -DSTRINGS_H -DTIME_H -c usage.c &151
usage.c: In function addusage:
usage.c:38: argument `type' doesn't match function prototype
usage.c:38: a formal parameter type that promotes to `int'
usage.c:38: can match only `int' in the prototype

151: *** Error code 1
Make: .  Stop.
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***  Sean Casey          sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean