On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Peter Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 08:38 -0700, John Doty wrote: >> On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: >> >> > Means C didn't find the function, and it assumes it returns integer in >> > that case. Dumb convention IMO. >> >> "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." - Dennis M. Ritchie. > > True.. very true. I believe the behaviour in question dates back to the > days where prototypes were very different, and C sometimes had to > assume. > > I've been debugging some problems in a large 3D CAD + FEA system written > in C++ recently. Give me nice C code that ANY day over that impenetrable > crap. > >
...if only there was some sort of flag or option that could be passed to the compiler to convince it otherwise... _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
