prototypes for nested functions

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Wed Dec 27 12:03:00 GMT 2000


Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> This is a really stupid misfeature.  Requiring prior prototype declarations
> for nested or static functions defined with prototype definitions is idiotic.

Static functions don't need prototypes but I agree completely with the
nested function case.

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