On Sunday, August 28, 2022, Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Aug 28 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 10:47:38AM -0400, Yair Lenga wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've noticed Bash code uses "old-style" C89 declarations: > >> * Parameters are separated from the prototype > >> * Variables declared only at the beginning of the function > >> * No mixed declaration/statements > >> * No block local variables > >> > >> intmax_t > >> evalexp (expr, flags, validp) > >> char *expr; > >> int flags; > >> int *validp; > >> { > >> intmax_t val; > >> int c; > >> procenv_t oevalbuf; > >> > >> val = 0; > >> noeval = 0; > >> already_expanded = (flags&EXP_EXPANDED); > > > > You're mistaken. What you're seeing is the "K&R" coding style, which > > predates C89. This was not really a coding style. This was the c language syntax of defining parameters. > > Note that the next revision of the C standard removes support for K&R > declarations > The code will continue to compile, won't it? Regards, Dmitry > -- > Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org > GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 > "And now for something completely different." > >