Interpretation needed Re: function prototypes

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <12570014 at hpclscu.HP.COM> shankar at hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
>The debate is whether the parenthesized sentences (especially the one marked
>with "->") apply only to the last combination, or to all three.

All of them, of course.  That paragraph is specifying what it takes for
function interfaces to have compatible types, and the parenthetical
clarifies some aspects of parameter type compatibility, which is a
subissue within the more general function type compatibility issue.