<<Moving from CCS C to HP C it appears we have lost a critical feature in
that we do not receive warnings for missing prototypes ? Is this true ?>>
 
Prototypes are an ANSI option, but the language has never required them;
as such, a missing prototype is neither an error nor a warning condition,
so no diagnostic is required. A compiler that issues diagnostics on
missing prototypes is certainly a good idea, and most of them tell you
something like "'yourfunctionwithnoprototype' undefined; assuming extern
returning int", but it's a non-standard extension. Since C/iX is
marginally ANSI anyway (and not even that by default), I don't think
you'll find it complaining about this one, even with "-w1".
 
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