Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 13:49:55 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dd@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/jot Makefile jot.c Message-ID: <52963.991050595@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 May 2001 21:43:58 %2B1000." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105282121480.1612-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Mon, 28 May 2001 21:43:58 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Since when do you have to add a prototype for main()?! > > Since -Wmissing-prototypes was added to CFLAGS (by WARNS=2 or BDECFLAGS) > to detect the potential error of not declaring extern functions in > the right place (which is never in *.c). Bleh. I think this is stupid. The compiler we use shouldn't force us into unnecessary source work-arounds. Not providing a forward declaration for main() is _always_ okay because it's _never_ called by any other subroutine in the module. David, how would you feel about a local hack to gcc for this? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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