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On 7/12/24 11:46, Keith Thompson wrote:
> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> [...]
>> KT has chosen not to answer, and now you are evading it too. I'm
>> asking why this:
>>
>>      void F(int* B) {}
>>
>> is 'not C' according to KT.
> 
> I never said that's "not C".  It is in fact a perfectly valid function
> definition.  And it's not the question you originally asked.

In your message dated 2024-07-11 13:29 -0700, you wrote:
>> The language could insist that you write:
> 
>    void F(int* B) {}
> 
> But it doesn't.  Why should we waste time in comp.lang.c explaining how
> C *could* have been defined?  It's hard enough to explain how it
> actually is defined, especially with your contributions.
>
>> This way, it is far clearer that a pointer is being passed, and 'pass
>> by value' now makes more sense. The way B will be used is now
>> consistent with the same declaration anywhere else.
> 
> But that's not C.

So you did say that something is not C, Bart has merely misidentified
what it is. "void F(int*B)" is C, and you never denied that it was.
Insisting that you write "void F(int*B)" - in other words, disallowing
"void F(int B[20])" - is not C, and that's you did say.