>> gcc has an unforunate misfeature that silently rewrites the former
>> to the latter if a suitable prototype declaration is in scope, thus
>> encouraging the writing of such code, but it's gcc, not C.
> That's fixed with GCC 3.4: -Wold-style-definition

Ah!  Excellent.  Thank you for pointing me towards that.

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