Re: why still use C?

From: Jeremy Yallop (jeremy_at_jdyallop.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 10/22/03


Date: 21 Oct 2003 22:34:48 GMT

Default User wrote:
> "E. Robert Tisdale" wrote:
>
>> My GNU C compiler easily detects the missing declaration for malloc
>> with or without the cast.
>
> There's no requirement for an implementation to do the above.

There is such a requirement in C99, where calling an undeclared
function is an error (a syntax error, if footnotes are to be
believed).

Jeremy.



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