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Re: Prototype hell

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Assar Westerlund)
Fri Oct 10 16:15:06 1997

To: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Date: 10 Oct 1997 22:15:24 +0200
In-Reply-To: Tom Yu's message of "Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:32:45 -0400"

Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Do you require that all functions take wide types as arguments?  That
> would go quite a ways towards allowing people to use K&R compilers to
> compile with the kerberos headers and link with the library.

We're mostly trying to be compatible with the MIT krb5 API.  Looking
through the file it seems that there's only one instance of a short
type as an argument and that's for an `internal' function, so I think
the answer is yes.

/assar

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