Re: Doubt

From: santosh <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:28:33 +0530

Richard Heathfield wrote:

santosh said:

Anarki wrote:

<snip>

2.I haven't included stdio.h yet the printf compiles.The compiler
doesn't complain about the requirement of function prototype, why?

If you had invoked your compiler in conforming mode then it would
have.

Chapter and verse for C90, please. (I accept that your claim is
correct for C99.)

<snip>

Um, does 0.0 p0 qualify? :-)

You're right. The rules of C90 do not require a diagnostic. This is what
comes of relying more on gcc than on the Standard document itself.

.

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