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From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Prototypes
Message-ID: <37263@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Jun 93 19:07:42 GMT
References: <1vib9c$oe7@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Edinburgh University
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In article <1vib9c$oe7@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
>I found that this was well worth the effort, since function prototypes
>and a more formal typechecking proceedures caught quite a number of
>"little" problems. What more can you do here with ANSI C?

I'd be interested to know whether prototypes gave you any help that
"lint" would not have.

-- Richard
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