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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Path: sparky!uunet!taumet!steve
- From: steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage)
- Subject: Re: Possible bug in BC 3.1: ellipsis in proto argument list
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.164722.20143@taumet.com>
- Organization: TauMetric Corporation
- References: <1993Jan24.050036.26236@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1993Jan24.161612.18120@taumet.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:47:22 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage) writes:
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- >... The ellipsis-only notation
- [ void foo(...); ]
- > is to allow
- >linking to functions written in another language (not C++) where the
- >calling conventions just happen to work and you are willing to forgo type
- >checking and default promotion of actual arguments.
-
- I meant to say
- "...forgo type checking and accept default promotion of actual arguments."
- ^^^^^^
- >--
-
- >Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com
- --
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- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com
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