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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!uknet!edcastle!richard From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Prototypes Message-ID: <37263@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 14 Jun 93 19:07:42 GMT References: <1vib9c$oe7@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Edinburgh University Lines: 12 In article <1vib9c$oe7@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes: >I found that this was well worth the effort, since function prototypes >and a more formal typechecking proceedures caught quite a number of >"little" problems. What more can you do here with ANSI C? I'd be interested to know whether prototypes gave you any help that "lint" would not have. -- Richard -- "When you type to UNIX, a gnome deep in the system is gathering your characters and saving them in a secret place." - Unix 6th edition manual