From: wjmc@unix.brighton.ac.uk (-*_Cuddly_Cactus_*-)
Subject: Re: Turbo Ada
Date: 9 Mar 93 16:57:10 GMT
Date: 1993-03-09T16:57:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Mar9.165710.12963@unix.brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
cjames@DSC.BLM.GOV (Colin James 0621) writes:
> ... In fact, the highest quality C compilers now
> are for PCs. For example, try calling a void function_test as
> "function_test", rather than "function_test ( )". The Prime C compiler
> and the Sun ANSII C compiler both compile "function_test", then at run-
> time simply skip over the line. But the PC compilers flag the error and
> tell you "which function or if a variable, not found".
Uh ... surely the name of a function without the () is just a constant
expression of type void (*)(), yielding the address (well pointer to)
the function concerned ???
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