Re: argument names in function declarations

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:26:17PM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> 
> Does using leading underscores in the names help with the cpp issue?

Not really.  Particularly idiotic code and compilers can end up treating
the prototype-with-argument-names as a function declaration and then
imploding much later, at link or dynamic load time.  I was shocked the
first time I saw this, don't know if the standard actually allows it,
but have always assumed it's why we don't put argument names into our
header file prototypes.

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