Re: gEDA-user: pcb plugin smartdisperse fails on load

[Russell Dill <russd@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 08:38 -0700, John Doty wrote:
>> On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:
>>
>> > Means C didn't find the function, and it assumes it returns integer in
>> > that case. Dumb convention IMO.
>>
>> "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." - Dennis M. Ritchie.
>
> True.. very true. I believe the behaviour in question dates back to the
> days where prototypes were very different, and C sometimes had to
> assume.
>
> I've been debugging some problems in a large 3D CAD + FEA system written
> in C++ recently. Give me nice C code that ANY day over that impenetrable
> crap.
>
>

...if only there was some sort of flag or option that could be passed
to the compiler to convince it otherwise...


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