For function definitions (not declarations/prototypes), is it necessary
to put void in the emptry braces if the function is to receive no
parameters? Does this turn any error checking off or cause any other
effects?
-thanks
12  1856 
TTroy wrote: For function definitions (not declarations/prototypes), is it necessary
to put void in the emptry braces if the function is to receive no
parameters? Does this turn any error checking off or cause any other
effects?
No. In a function _definition_ empty '()' immediately means "no parameters".
--
Best regards,
Andrey Tarasevich
Andrey Tarasevich wrote: TTroy wrote: For function definitions (not declarations/prototypes), is it
necessary to put void in the emptry braces if the function is to receive no
parameters? Does this turn any error checking off or cause any
other effects?
No. In a function _definition_ empty '()' immediately means "no
parameters".
Even if I use the empty () definition of a function as the only
declaration?
I also have another question. If I was calling a function and also
casting values of arguments, does this cast come BEFORE or AFTER the
automatic conversion caused by the prototype? I guess the question
applies when there is no prototype - does the case happen before or
after the promotions?
TTroy wrote: Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
TTroy wrote:
For function definitions (not declarations/prototypes), is it
necessary
to put void in the emptry braces if the function is to receive no
parameters ? Does this turn any error checking off or cause any
other
effects?
No. In a function _definition_ empty '()' immediately means "no
parameters".
Even if I use the empty () definition of a function as the only
declaration?
Let's get specific: If you write
void f(void) { ... }
void g(void) { f(42); }
.... the compiler is required to issue a diagnostic for the
mismatch between the number of arguments in the call and the
number of parameters in the prototype. But if you write
void f() { ... }
void g(void) { f(42); }
.... the compiler is not required to catch the mistake.
I also have another question. If I was calling a function and also
casting values of arguments, does this cast come BEFORE or AFTER the
automatic conversion caused by the prototype? I guess the question
applies when there is no prototype - does the case happen before or
after the promotions?
Before. The cast operator is part of the expression
that calculates the value you provide as an argument, just
like other operators (+, -, ...) that might appear in the
expression. The expression yields a value of some type,
and conversions or promotions occur depending on what that
type is and on what the compiler knows about the function.
The cast has already been applied before this happens.
-- Er*********@sun .com
TTroy wrote: Andrey Tarasevich wrote: TTroy wrote: For function definitions (not declarations/prototypes), is it necessary to put void in the emptry braces if the function is to receive no
parameters? Does this turn any error checking off or cause any other effects?
No. In a function _definition_ empty '()' immediately means "no
parameters".
Even if I use the empty () definition of a function as the only
declaration?
empty () in declarations tell the compiler to assume nothing about
parameters (turns parameter checking off)
I also have another question. If I was calling a function and also
casting values of arguments, does this cast come BEFORE or AFTER the
automatic conversion caused by the prototype? I guess the question
applies when there is no prototype - does the case happen before or
after the promotions?
Before.
For example, back in the days when there were no prototypes, and people
wanted to send intergers to functions that accepted only floats, they
would do this:
int i = 7;
func((float)i);
These days casting is never required because prototypes do the same
thing, but casting is still used when "weird" conversions might cause
the compiler to complain.
In ANSI-C that's fine (no void needed)
But in old Standard-C (K&R) code func() ment, that
0..many parameters are possible (NOT checked).
So if you don't come across OLD K&R-style C-code, you
NEEDN'T use func(void), but i guess it doesn't hurt, either.
"TTroy" <ti*****@gmail. com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:11******** **************@ g14g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. . For function definitions (not declarations/prototypes), is it necessary
to put void in the emptry braces if the function is to receive no
parameters? Does this turn any error checking off or cause any other
effects?
-thanks
TTroy wrote: ...
No. In a function _definition_ empty '()' immediately means "no parameters".
Even if I use the empty () definition of a function as the only
declaration?
Yes.
I also have another question. If I was calling a function and also
casting values of arguments, does this cast come BEFORE or AFTER the
automatic conversion caused by the prototype? I guess the question
applies when there is no prototype - does the case happen before or
after the promotions?
Explicitly specified cast precedes any implicit conversions.
--
Best regards,
Andrey Tarasevich
Luke Wu wrote: > ...
> No. In a function _definition_ empty '()' immediately means "no
parameters". >
Even if I use the empty () definition of a function as the only
declaration?
empty () in declarations tell the compiler to assume nothing about
parameters (turns parameter checking off)
...
Once again, unless this function declaration also happens to be a
definition. In that case '()' explicitly means "no parameters".
--
Best regards,
Andrey Tarasevich
Jens Marder wrote:
Please don't top post. You reply belongs after or intermixed with the
text you are replying to.
Top posting fixed. "TTroy" <ti*****@gmail. com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:11******** **************@ g14g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .
For function definitions (not declarations/prototypes), is it necessary
to put void in the emptry braces if the function is to receive no
parameters? Does this turn any error checking off or cause any other
effects?
-thanks
In ANSI-C that's fine (no void needed)
You obviously don't know pre-ANSI C, since it was ANSI C that
*introduced* void to the language.
But in old Standard-C (K&R) code func() ment, that
0..many parameters are possible (NOT checked).
It means the same in *all* versions of C.
So if you don't come across OLD K&R-style C-code, you
NEEDN'T use func(void), but i guess it doesn't hurt, either.
If you use old K&R style C then you *can't* use void because it did not
exist then.
With ANSI/ISO C (as others have stated) you need to specify void if you
want the compiler to be required to diagnose parameters being passed to
a function that does not accept parameters.
--
Flash Gordon
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