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-rw-r--r--gcc/README.Portability11
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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 85775c9d8eb..5b1fe5e0e07 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2002-07-01 Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>
+ * README.Portability (Function prototypes): Give an example of
+ declaring and defining a function with no arguments.
+
* README.Portability (Function prototypes): Document new
variable-argument function macros.
diff --git a/gcc/README.Portability b/gcc/README.Portability
index ccd05e7521d..dba12406c61 100644
--- a/gcc/README.Portability
+++ b/gcc/README.Portability
@@ -129,6 +129,17 @@ myfunc (var1, var2)
...
}
+This implies that if the function takes no arguments, it should be
+declared and defined as follows:
+
+int myfunc PARAMS ((void))
+
+int
+myfunc ()
+{
+ ...
+}
+
You also need to use PARAMS when referring to function protypes in
other circumstances, for example see "Calling functions through
pointers to functions" below.