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Date:      Sun, 7 Sep 1997 14:04:16 -0700
From:      Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'warning: function declaration isn't a prototype'
Message-ID:  <19970907140416.33084@micron.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <19970907115417.VA15613@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 11:54:17AM %2B0200
References:  <19970907020657.59233@micron.efn.org> <19970907115417.VA15613@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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J Wunsch stands accused of saying :
> As Jonathan Mini wrote:
> 
> >   I am getting warnings along the lines of 'function declaration isn't a
> > prototype' every time I declare a function that is void func(); (static or
> > public) 
> 
> >   Does anybody know what this warning is trying to tell me?
> 
> That you should use prototypes.
> 
> extern	void func(void);
> 
> See also style(9).

Seen style(9) -- a friend pointed it out to me before I started working on the
kernel.

...and I was prototyping. Like this :

static	void		msctimer();

I changed it to :

static	void		msctimer(void);

... and the problem went away. Funny, I have never received that watning
before, and I have been using C (with prototypes like that) for many years.

> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

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