> IMNSHO, ANSI-C should never have taken on the type-coercion feature
> of prototypes.  This is definitely a new invention,

I thought it was taken from C++?  Not that that's really relevant to
the current discussion.

> and as we're seeing, one that causes portability problems --

Any change was bound to cause portability problems.

> Note that proper lint checking *cannot* be done without either
> including every header with prototypes in every module, [...or else
> keeping lint-like pseudo-prototypes around...].

Right.  Which is why I advocate -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes, to ensure that you've _got_ all those header
files.  (You actually don't need _every_ header, just those with the
prototypes for the routines defined and/or called.)

					der Mouse

			    mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu