Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!jon@cit-vax From: jon@cit-vax (Jonathan P. Leech) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: lint, pointers, 0 (what else?) Message-ID: <8097@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 17:35:30 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8097 Posted: Wed Feb 6 17:35:30 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 04:07:53 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 16 > > ... The ANSI C language standard permits you to declare the > types of the arguments of a function, which makes 99% of these problems > go away. > Guy Harris > {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy Does the standard require compilers to generate warnings when they have to generate a cast of function arguments? The potential for truly sloppy coding seems enormous with this change. Speaking of the standard, does anyone know when it will be available for public comment? -- Jon Leech jon@cit-vax.arpa