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RE: trying to understand: "warning: function declaration isn't a prototype"

From: Jay Vaughan <jv at access-music dot de>
To: "John Yates" <jyates at netezza dot com>, "Ian Lance Taylor" <iant at google dot com>
Cc: <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:30:45 +0200
Subject: RE: trying to understand: "warning: function declaration isn't a prototype"
References: <4D87F853B8020F4888896B1507DC0F09827374@mail2.netezza.com>

I believe the issue is that empty parentheses do not constitute a valid
prototype and that to be truly conformant you would have to write:
    extern int foo (void);

oh man that is so obvious it hurts to be discussing it .. thanks for pointing that out! :)

--

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Jay Vaughan

References:
- RE: trying to understand: "warning: function declaration isn't a prototype"
  - From: John Yates

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