Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: function declaration without args no longer works
Date: Fri, 08 May 2026 07:36:23 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <86tssit1co.fsf@linuxsc.com>
References: <10sl5na$5ov$1@reader1.panix.com> <AABp7iAw8kQAAAp3.A3.flnews@WStation7.micha.freeshell.org> <10slehr$mho$1@reader1.panix.com> <10tasgg$7nu$1@reader1.panix.com> <86zf2ewcm8.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10tcc5j$e45$1@reader1.panix.com> <86ecjpwzye.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10ti0uk$97m$1@reader1.panix.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Injection-Date: Fri, 08 May 2026 14:36:24 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="3100621"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18824K6RntFE2lYKHGEHXGUBNUuWI42mTQ="; posting-host="12a84863e630bdf33525bc8ffa10a418"
User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:TyLxH5tRdqVBoAq9Bnf4Nk9Ryas= sha1:pAZNWh+jtlw8QjWU8CAhWf6mDDQ= sha256:K7UegWpM25r2AbNw3NwxSU86CmseUF59gzx65XfAVoE= sha1:sfoVmQTwQOSkJkHqNStosNWDYyY=
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:398491

John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> writes:

> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
>  [...]
>
>> Do you have a breakdown of all the types of
>> flagged constructs in all of the source files
>> (i.e., those that you mention in a later posting)?
>>
>> It would be interesting to know how many bugs would be turned up
>> (e.g., like the close()/fclose() confusion) by compiling with C99
>> rather than C89/C90.
>
> So many sources, so little time.  Don't have enough of the latter
> to enumerate and document all that.  [...]

You should at least be able to compile under C99 and discover
the number of errors or warnings in each file.  That would be
worth knowing.  And probably will take 10 minutes or less.