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But I think it's good to know other pitfalls:
- The "default" return type of a function is int
- A function that does not use void to tell that it takes no argument just have an undefined number of parameters
See this example: https://ideone.com/GfwS4O
You could in theory use the address of a local variable (allocated on the stack) to access the arguments passed to the function directly on the stack.
But this is just madness... Or is it ? Isn't C just assembly with a "nicer" syntax ?
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But I think it's good to know other pitfalls:
- The "default" return type of a function is int
- A function that does not use void to tell that it takes no argument just have an undefined number of parameters
See this example: https://ideone.com/GfwS4O
You could in theory use the address of a local variable (allocated on the stack) to access the arguments passed to the function directly on the stack.
But this is just madness... Or is it ? Isn't C just assembly with a "nicer" syntax ?