From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Cornelius Keck <ckeck@texoma.net>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] About Unix header files
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:44:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180822094452.73ca043f@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180821213743.4931661.91186.9539@texoma.net>
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:37:43 -0500 Cornelius Keck <ckeck@texoma.net>
wrote:
> Early C-compilers didn't care much about prototypes. The default
> return type of a function would be an int. It was up to the code's
> author to pass the right (amount, order, type). The linker didn't
> care about signatures as long as the symbol resolved.
To my knowledge, object file formats still don't have information
about type signatures, and linkers still don't care about types. This
is actually a problem. It would probably prevent a lot of errors if
those things changed.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-22 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-21 4:55 Caipenghui
2018-08-21 6:00 ` Warren Toomey
2018-08-21 21:37 ` Cornelius Keck
2018-08-22 4:25 ` [TUHS] Cornelius Keck Caipenghui
2018-08-22 13:44 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2018-08-22 15:29 ` [TUHS] About Unix header files Paul Winalski
2018-08-22 15:36 ` Caipenghui
2018-08-22 15:46 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-08-22 15:52 ` G. Branden Robinson
2018-08-22 15:56 ` Paul Winalski
2018-08-22 16:04 ` Dan Cross
2018-08-23 2:23 ` George Michaelson
2018-08-22 22:00 Doug McIlroy
2018-08-22 23:05 ` Erik E. Fair
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