mike@odgate.odesta.com (Mike J. Kelly) (04/19/91)
David Byers writes: >C compilers (mercifully) does not complain if a function called is not >declared, but the compiler willl make certain assumptions, leaving it >to the linker to find the function. > Not so mercifully, as the example you responded to illustrates (function returning long implicitly declared as returning an int). That's one reason that we ALWAYS run Think C with the "Require Prototypes" preference turned on.