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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: How to find the problem in the object file
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 4:13:49 PM UTC-6, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> In C99, the committee removed implicit int from the language, and it
>> hadn't even been marked as obsolescent.  I agree with that decision,
>> and similar reasons apply to non-prototype function declarations
>> and definitions.  Removing them would make C a better language.
[...]
> By contrast, some implementations define useful behaviors for non-prototyped
> functions beyond anything the C Standard requires, and regarding declarations
> without argument lists as a constraint violation would break such code *in
> a way that could be difficult to fix*.

Examples?

[...]

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