Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!SMITHKLINE.COM!wood%lavc3.dnet From: wood%lavc3.dnet@SMITHKLINE.COM (Bill Wood, SmithKline&French R&D, 215-270-5163) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Prototyping promotion problem Message-ID: <9002270426.AA05419@smithkline.com> Date: 27 Feb 90 04:26:11 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 13 In your function def, use the ANSI C format of declaring the arg type in the argument list: addusage(char *name, char type, char *args, char *usage) { ... } I think this will work, although what you did seems like it should work since you included prototypes.h in the file which contained the function def, and the latest prototype should have applied... - Bill wood@smithkline.com