Subject: Re: A little program I wrote that core dumps. Should it?
To: RiscBSD Mailing List <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Peter Naulls <pnaulls@wave.co.nz>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/17/1997 10:06:05
> 
> A missing argument is an error, not just a warning.  You should always
> include the appropriate headers (eg <stdio.h>) - that way you get
> prototypes and the compiler can catch things like this.
> 
> (Or did you mean that -Wall causes gcc to moan about function calls that
> haven't been prototyped?)

That is indeed correct :)  Which would have happened if he hadn't
included the header.

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