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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:59:38 +0200
From: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
CC: nate AT cartsys DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: inb/outb
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > The `inb' and `outb' functions are missing their prototypes in <pc.h>.
> > Here is a patch.
> 
> Beware - some prototypes are left out of headers because various
> systems have conflicting definitions of them.  xmalloc, for example,
> is defined different ways in different GNU packages, and none expect
> the system headers to have them.

If I'm correct, the compiler assumes the default when a prototype is
omitted. Since the default is ``int'', isn't omitting a prototype
equally as bad as providing some prototype?

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