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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:03:50 +0100
From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch.pl: thou shalt not use () or (...) in
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On 03/22/2012 05:17 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:

> GCC will not normally warn about the above (unless you pass
> -Wold-style-definition) which warns for all function definitions that
> lack a prototype.


/me asks the stupid question:

Why not make the compiler catch this instead then, with -Werror=old-style-definition?

-- 
Pedro Alves