Strange behaviour with old-style code

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Feb6.190607.11731 at alias.uucp> rsargent at alias.UUCP (Richard Sargent) writes:
>I have come across a compiler which does something very unusual
>in its handling of old-style functions.

Looks to me like the arguments are default-promoted to widened types,
then assigned to local variables of the declared type in the function
definition.  This is exactly what is SUPPOSED to occur.  What did you
expect?