PARAMS and ISO-C - rules for engagement?
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@cygnus.com
Wed May 17 17:24:00 GMT 2000
Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> So, ok maintainers are now free to rip out PARAMS. The only suggestion
> I have is to remember to format functions as:
>
> extern int foo (void);
>
> and not:
>
> extern int
> foo (void);
>
Just an FYI on this. The reason declarations are written as:
extern void foo (void)
and definitions are written as:
extern void
foo (void)
{
}
is so that the pattern '^foo' finds the function definition and not its
declaration. While the only reason it is an especially useful one :-)
enjoy,
Andrew
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