Re: Mangled function prototypes (phantom arguments)

Hello Alex,

Thanks for responding.

> > The problems have all resulted in prototypes adding a phantom first
> > argument. See for example this prototype from read.2:
> >
> >        ssize_t read(size_t count;
> >                     int fd, void buf[count], size_t count);
>
> This is valid C (except for the array of void, but that's a separate
> topic).

As we see, I'm not keeping up with my C :-).

Is this a GNU extension? Or part of the standard? Or an upcoming part
of the standard?

Thanks,

Michael

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