Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!ncar!ico!ism780c!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: passing *char parameters by reference Message-ID: <14280@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 13 Aug 89 18:54:46 GMT References: <1424@novavax.UUCP> <660050@hpclwjm.HP.COM> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 9 In article <660050@hpclwjm.HP.COM> walter@hpclwjm.HP.COM (Walter Murray) writes: >If you use function prototypes, an ANSI-conforming compiler will also >catch this kind of error. Or it might silently "fix" it by doing an automatic conversion from the actual argument type to the formal parameter type. Hopefully, any reasonable ANSI C compiler will at least have an option to warn about such constructs. Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint