prototypes required ?

Karl Heuer karl at haddock.ima.isc.com
Thu Oct 18 14:45:16 AEST 1990


In article <1964 at ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> Christopher-Vance at adfa.oz.au writes:
>gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>| Yes, you definitely must have a prototype in scope [for printf()]
>
>Which means that gcc -ansi on a Pyramid cannot compile such a thing. I am
>informed that the only way to make printf work is to *omit* the prototype.

Presumably this is caused by having to link with the native implementation of
printf(), and hence will be fixed when the FSF releases the GNU library.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl at ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint



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