Article: Q36722
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 5.00 5.10 | 5.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | s_quickc s_error | mspl13_c
Last Modified: 14-NOV-1988
This information is from section D.1.3 (Page 340) of the "Microsoft
QuickC Programmer's Guide" and section E.3.3 (Page 269) of the
Microsoft C Optimizing Compiler User's Guide" for Versions 5.00 and
5.10.
This message indicates potential problems but does not hinder
compilation and linking. The number in parentheses at the end of a
warning-message description gives the minimum warning level that must
be set for the message to appear.
The following is the warning:
C4037 'identifier' : formal parameters ignored
No storage class or type name appeared before the
declarators of formal parameters in a function
declaration, as in the following example:
int *f(a,b,c);
The formal parameters are ignored. (1)
The prototype for this function, f, did not declare the types of
arguments that the function receives. You could correct the above
example as follows:
int *f (int a, int b, int c) ;