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From: Roland Exler <R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Prototype Checking
Date: 10 Oct 1995 07:02:47 GMT
Organization: Institute for el. Measurement, University of Linz, Austria
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"Nathan L. Cutler" <library AT ssd DOT anet DOT cz> wrote:
>I am going through a C tutorial that is very good but quite old.  One of the
>things it is telling me to do is to enable prototype checking with my
>compiler.  I am using djgpp.  (1) is it actually necessary to turn on proto-
>type checking with gcc? and (2) what is the command-line extension to do so?

With djgpp(gcc) just turn on flag -Wall, which gives a lot of useful 
warnings, including function-calls without prototypes. More flags are 
explained in the docs (info or printed-version).

Roland

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