[LLVMdev] function getting typed as variable argument functions

[Eli Friedman]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Ryan M. Lefever
<lefever at crhc.illinois.edu> wrote:
> the following C code
>
> uint64_t getStartTime();
>
> is getting compiled to
>
> declare i64 @getStartTime(...)
>
> in bitcode.  Why would this happen?

Because the number/types of the arguments are unknown.  For example,
the following is legal:

a.c:
uint64_t getStartTime();
uint64_t x() { return getStartTime(10); }

b.c:
uint64_t getStartTime(int x) { return x + 10; }

Perhaps you meant to write "uint64_t getStartTime(void)"?

-Eli