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From: the Icefalcon <kourino AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: One more thing about __P()
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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:56:33 GMT
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the Icefalcon wrote:
> 
> A bunch of files in the nvi 1.79 distribution have some __P() symbol
> defined in them that's used like this:
> 
> clib/bsearch.c:72:      register int (*compar) __P((const void *, const void
> *));
> vi/v_ex.c:30:static int v_ecl __P((SCR *));
> vi/vi.c:41:static int   v_init __P((SCR *));
> 
> What is this? Is it defined somewhere in a file that I'm missing for
> some reason? (This is Berkelely source code, that somehow wouldn't
> surprise me too much) Or am I just missing something obvious due to
> me relative newbieness?

Oh yes, it seems to be giving me parse errors ^^; At least, I keep
getting "parse error before __P" when there are no syntax errors on
that line before it or on the line before it.
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                                             -|-E the Icefalcon