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		enf on May 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github That was the standard way of declaring parameter types until ANSI C in 1989. C actually copied the current style back from C++.

_kst_ on May 23, 2013 [–]

ANSI C didn't drop old-style (non-prototype) function declarations and definitions -- nor did C99 or C11. They've been officially obsolescent since 1989, but they're still fully supported by any conforming compiler.

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