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Subject: Re: [hangar18-general] [9fans] function inconsistently declared (fwd)
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Date: Fri,  4 Oct 2002 13:52:06 -0500
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Jim Choate wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:23:26 +0200
> From: Zoltan Jarai <jarai@mail.tvnet.hu>
> Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Subject: [9fans] function inconsistently declared
>
> I suspect this must be elementary but could someone, please, enlighten
> me why the code fragment below produces an error message:
>
> cpu% 8c -FVw c.c
> c.c:4 function inconsistently declared: f
> cpu% cat c.c
> int f(int,char);
> int f(a,b)
>         int a;
>         char b;
> {
>   return a+b;
> }
> cpu%

/* Try: */

  int f(int a,char b) /* ANSI */
  {
      return (a+b);
  }

/* Or */

  int f(a,b) /* K&R */
  int a;
  char b;
  {
    return a+b;
  }

/* but not both */

Later, Bob