Re: RFC: status icon support

[David Kastrup]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>     Please no K&R in new code.  
>>>
>>> We have no policy against K&R style.  I recently accepted non-K&R
>>> function definitions in Emacs sources, but I still do not particularly
>>> like it.  K&R style is easier to read anyway.
>>
>> It stops the compiler from doing type checking and type conversions, for
>> one thing.
>
> Unless you add prototypes.

In which case you have
a) undefined behavior (the compiler need not check whether the prototype
   matches the function declaration).
b) not K&R compatible C, so where is the point?

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