Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 00:26:41 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'warning: function declaration isn't a prototype' Message-ID: <19970908002641.TV55800@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <19970907140416.33084@micron.efn.org>; from Jonathan Mini on Sep 7, 1997 14:04:16 -0700 References: <19970907020657.59233@micron.efn.org> <19970907115417.VA15613@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970907140416.33084@micron.efn.org>
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As Jonathan Mini wrote: > ...and I was prototyping. Like this : > > static void msctimer(); > > I changed it to : > > static void msctimer(void); > > ... and the problem went away. Funny, I have never received that watning > before, and I have been using C (with prototypes like that) for many years. That's not a `prototype' in the strict ANSI sense. Unless we were talking about C++, where the omission of function parameters is equivalent to declaring the list as just `void'. But then, C++ always requires prototypes, unlike ANSI C. What you've been using is what K&R II calls ``old-style function declarations''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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