From: sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
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Subject: Re: A very basic question about C programming... diary of a newbie Part 1
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:06:00 GMT
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From: Gruber Gerhard
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 04:52:58 GMT:

>> Of course it's ok - if you are a superman and never make unintentional
>> mistakes. The purpose of prototypes is to allow the compiler to do
>> error checking. Why would you intentionally refuse to accept this help
>> if it is for free ?
>
>well....i suppose it would be silly not to include that one word and risk a mistake
>but...If you passed parameters to the function prototyped without the void...it
>wouldn't screw up the program. It simply would ingnore the parameters wouldn't it?...
>or would it?

No it would not. In C++ the compiler should issue a warning (or an error?) and
in C it is correctly passed on. If you are calling a function with pascal
convention, though, it would crash because in pascal the called function is
cleaning up the stack.
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   Gerhard

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