peter green wrote:
> But when the compiler builds the function it doesn't know whether the
> caller will be using function prototypes or not.

Sure it does.  It certainly knows whether there has been a prototype.

In any case, there is no excuse for functions without prototypes, so making
prototypes a requirement would be a good thing anyway.  Most compilers now
at least warn about no prototype by default.  Pessimizing the 99.5% case to
handle a obscure thing nobody uses anymore is a really bad tradeoff.


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