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Re: Warning for C Parameter Name Mismatch
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 17:27, Segher Boessenkool
<segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 08:30:19AM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, 02:23 Eric Gallager, <egall@gwmail.gwu.edu> wrote:
> > > How would it handle the case where the parameter name is missing
> > > entirely from the prototype? I see a lot of header files with their
> > > prototypes written like that.
> > >
> > > e.g.
> > >
> > > int f(int);
> > >
> > > int f(int y) {...}
> >
> > I don't think that's valid in C, only C++, and I would expect no warning
> > for such cases. But I don't see much value in the suggested warning at all.
>
> This is perfectly fine C. Parameter names are optional in prototypes.
> It's different if it is the function definition, I think that is what
> you mean?
Ah yes, sorry for the noise.