K&R-style variadic functions

[Regan Heath]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:08:51 +0100, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>  
wrote:

> On Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 15:13:52 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:50:27 +0100, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012-07-17 16:37, Regan Heath wrote:
>>>
>>>> All my googling for "old style" "variadic" etc returned the use of
>>>> va_alist and va_dcl so I can't see where/why Clang would do what it's
>>>> doing.
>>>
>>> To be accurate it's the libclang function  
>>> "clang_isFunctionTypeVariadic" that returns true.
>>>
>>> http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/group__CINDEX__TYPES.html#ga343b2463b0ed4b259739242cf26c3ae2
>>
>> Is Clang open source, can we see the code for that function?  Perhaps  
>> it's a bug.. ANSI C may have made () without "void" obsolete, but no  
>> compiler I've ever used has actually enforced that - or perhaps C++  
>> made old-style function definition/declarations obsolete and allowed ()  
>> back again.
>>
>> R
>
> In C++, a function with no parameters () is a synonym for (void).

That's what I've been assuming all this time, but I wasn't sure if I was  
technically (according to the spec) right, so I didn't want to say.. :)

R

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