Function Prototype Generation

[Tim Prince]

Bob Smith wrote:
> I was using MS Visual Studio for a C-only project and want to switch for 
> various reasons.  One reason not to switch is that I can't find a way to 
> get gcc to generate function prototypes automatically.  MSVC has a 
> switch (/Zg) which they list as deprecated to do this.
> 
> 1.  Am I missing something in gcc?
Do you mean gnu protoize?
> 
> 2.  Why would MS want to remove this useful capability,

Because there's no reason to duplicate gnu tools, if this is what you mean?