Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 8 Nov 2006 21:59:19 -0800, "David > Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > davids> You are correct, but that's not the issue. The issue is this > davids> simple -- if you are going to call a function whose types you > davids> don't know (through a prototype), you must cast each type you > davids> pass to the type the function expects. End of story. OpenSSL > davids> does not do this. This is not valid C whether or not the type > davids> sizes are the same. > > So basically, you're saying that K&R-style functions (non-prototyped) > aren't handled in a pre-prototype manner any more? That's a fairly > extreme change of how C used to work. While I understand such a > change, it's going to break quite a lot of things that still have > non-prototyped functions. > > Can you provide something in the C standard that supports this change?
Clearly this argument only applies to prototyped functions. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.links.org/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
