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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: Prototyping promotion problem.
Message-ID: <14336@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 90 22:43:10 GMT
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Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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I write:

|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.

One thing you need to know is that prototypes.h is automatically
generated. In all the source files, ff _STDC_ or _GNUC_ is defined,
prototypes.h is included. Otherwise, functypes.h (which consists of
prototypes.h with everything inside the parentheses deleted) is included. That
way, my code works on pcc and uses prototypes on GCC.

I still don't see why the compiler needs to cough on it when the two
match up exactly. It's very frustrating. I just want to make sure the
types match. Maybe I can turn off the promotion? Maybe I can tell GCC
"I don't care what promotes to what."

From the advice I've gotten so far, I guess I'm going to have to edit
prototypes.h by hand (or by perl) and change all "flat" character
references to int, or put in ifdefs for every procedure header. Yech.

Sean
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