Func Protos with K&R Func Defs

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Feb28.021715.18153 at athena.mit.edu> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>  In ANSI C, a function declaration must match its definition.  That means
>that if the declaration is prototyped, then the definition must also be
>prototyped, with the same types; if the declaration is not prototyped, then
>the definition cannot be prototyped either.

This is not true.  The types must be compatible, but subject to that
constraint the use of "old-style definitions" is compatible with the
use of prototypes.  (Basically, this means that the declared
parameter types must be those resulting from default argument
promotion, i.e. "widened" types.)