Simon J. Gerraty wrote:

>Or you could argue that the programmer broke things by thinking that 

>int foo(x)
>	short x;
>{

>meant anything.

Of course, it means something.

Obviously,

    int foo(x) short x; { write(1, &x, 2);}

and

    int foo(x) int x; { write(1, &x, 2);}

will produce different results on 32-bit big-endian machines.
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