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From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> 
> This should be better doced in various places since I used to k&r where
> if no proto for a lib is found it assumes it is the same ret type as ther
> caller "expects" it to be
> ./

I'm pretty sure this is not the case.  In K&R style code you
will generally see something like the following:

main() {
    double atof(), foo;

    foo = atof("1.345");
    printf("%f", foo);
    return 0;
}

Which does indeed work as expected.

What may be confusing you is that in the absence of a declaration
a K&R compiler will assume that the return type is int, just as
it does with main function above.  So what you say will appear
true in every instance of a function that truly returns an int.

So in your example the absence of a declaration for atof causes
the compiler to assume atof returns an int which it in term tries
to convert to a double and assign to foo. In C this would be
equivalent to something like:

	foo = (double)((int)atof("1.345"));

Steve

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