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Re: Unused named function argument

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On 30.08.2012 18:36, andrew.gottemoller@debesys.net wrote:
>
>  When compiling using gcc with, the below code will compile without
any sort of error:

What is "compiling using gcc with," supposed to mean?

>  int foo (int)
>  {
>        return 5;
>  }
>
>  Can the compilation result differ if I specify a name for the argument?

Not in this case. Of-course introducing a parameter name could have an
effect in other cases e.g. via name-hiding. Consider

int bla(){ return 5; }

int foo(int)
{
   return bla();
}

Assume now that we introduce the parameter name 'bla' here, this will
make the existing code ill-formed.

>  I can't see any way the naming of the parameter would ever make a
difference in the actual compilation result.  The question arose because
I noticed when compiling the following C program:
>
>
>  // Compile: gcc --std=c99 -c -pedantic -Wall -O3 foo.c
>  int foo (int)
>  {
>        return 5;
>  }
>
>
>  The error: 'parameter name omitted' is output by the compiler.
>
>  Is there any non-obvious significance in the parameter name with
C++11 or C99?

Yes, there is. In C99 (I have no older C standard available for further
reference) we find in 6.9.1 p5:

"If the declarator includes a parameter type list, the declaration of
each parameter shall include an identifier, except for the special case
of a parameter list consisting of a single parameter of type void, in
which case there shall not be an identifier."

In other words: The above function definition is ill-formed in C99, but
not in C++ (Note that for non-defining function declarations this
restriction does not exists).

HTH&  Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler


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