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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: disadvantages of using old parameter syntax?
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Anonymous Shadow <rocket.penguin@riseup.net> writes:
> I think I should also mention that in the zlib source distribution,
> there is a perl script that /attempts/ to "transform K&R C function
> definitions into ANSI equivalent". It is called zlib2ansi, and seems
> to work quite well, with the few small programs that I have tried with
> it.

It does have one problem (which is difficult to avoid).  It translates
this:

    int func(arg)
    short arg;
    {
    }

to this:

    int func(
        short arg)
    {
    }

which is not equivalent.  For the purposes for which it's used that's
probably not worth fixing.

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