> C has the irritating property of assuming that any function
> you reference
> but do not define exists as (IIRC) a function taking int
> parameters and
> returning an int functional result.

Actually, it's even a bit worse: in the absence of function
prototypes, when a C translator encounters a previously-unseen
identifier in the form of a function call, it assumes "function
returning int", and makes no assumptions about the parameters. If it
later encounters a different form of the identifier with different
parameters that are conversion-compatible with the previous version,
well, that's OK too. Ugh.

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