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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: aryeh@void.rad-inet.com, freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/5856
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>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

K&R requires return value declarations when the return value isn't a
(promoted) int.  Section 4.2 ("Functions Returning Non-Integers") of
"The C Programming Language" (1st ed.) goes into more detail; specifically,
at the bottom of page 69,

	Second, and just as important, the *calling* routine must state
	that atof returns a non-int value.  (emphasis theirs)

  Bill

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