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From: walter@hpclwjm.HP.COM (Walter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: passing *char parameters by reference
Message-ID: <660050@hpclwjm.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Aug 89 00:38:07 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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>>Would someone be kind enough to tell me why this program fails?

>Because it wasn't run through lint...

If you use function prototypes, an ANSI-conforming compiler will also
catch this kind of error.

Walter Murray
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