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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Set the result of void function
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:55:19 -0700
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bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 28/09/2017 20:57, David Brown wrote:
>> On 28/09/17 18:39, bartc wrote:
[...]
>>> Only DMC reports an error in the above.
>> 
>> It is not an error, so why should it?
>
> Look at the code again. Are you seriously telling me that passing a 
> string to a function, then passing a float to the same function, is not 
> an error?

We are seriously telling you that the behavior is undefined, that
the C standard does not require a diagnostic, and that the problem is
easily avoided by consistent use of prototypes.

Do you not believe us?

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