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Subject: Re: __P()?
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> From: the Icefalcon <kourino AT hotmail DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:55:17 GMT
> 
> 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 *));

This is a way of declaring a prototype so that it works even with
pre-ANSI compilers which don't support prototypes.  DJGPP has a
suitable definition for __P in <sys/cdefs.h>, which see.  You need to
include cdefs.h somehow.