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		mschuster91 on Jan 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An 8086 PC emulator in 4043 bytes Ah, thanks for the explanation. Looks like the author did a deep, deep dive in the C language specs!

hafflelog on Jan 5, 2014 [–]

K&R predates the specs, actually. C89 codified the current C parameter convention. Compilers typically continue to support K&R style for very old C code and because it doesn't break modern C support.

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