prototypes required ?

[Paul D. Smith]

[] Is it legal for a compilation system to require prototypes when stdarg
[] functions are used ?

The thing you need to remember is that, in the definition of the
stdarg package, each function *must* have at least the first argument
defined; i.e., you cannot declare a function as:

    int my_func( ... );

You must have at least one argument (see K&R II, Sec B7, p 254).  So,
if you are going to add the "..." construct you must declare a
prototype for the first argument.

I see no reason you could just not prototype anything, however:

    int printf();

This should cause no problems.

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