ANSI/Non-ANSI Function Declaration Macros

[Karl Heuer]

In article <0300 at sheol.UUCP> throopw at sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
>I use a more complicated scheme involving the three macros...  This has been
>known to make people barf...

Barf.

Another alternative is to simply write the bloody thing using prototypes, and
then on pre-ANSI implementations, run it through a deprotoizing filter.  This
has the advantage that there's nothing to clean up once you decide that
supporting the absence of prototypes is as archaic as supporting the absence
of |unsigned char| or |void|.

One such deprotoizer can be obtained as a patch to gcc; I also maintain a much
shorter one that compares against my personal coding style rather than
everything that the language permits.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint