Hello everyone,

I was wondering why ACE uses "(void)" in class functions that take no arguments. I must admit that in the very early days of C++ I did this myself. My reasons where to do with header files that were shared between C and C++. Functions whose prototypes
are in such headers have to use "(void)" because "()" has a different meaning in C. But surely this does not apply for class functions. After all if the function is in a class than it cannot be C so there cannot be any issue with "()" meaning "an
unspecified argument list".

Regards,

Andrew Marlow
http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk

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Hi,

It are the style-guidelines from the past. In our TAOX11/AXCIOMA products we use () but for consistency in ACE/TAO we are using (void)

Johnny


On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 10:28:31 AM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:

Hello everyone,

I was wondering why ACE uses "(void)" in class functions that take no arguments. I must admit that in the very early days of C++ I did this myself. My reasons where to do with header files that were shared between C and C++. Functions whose prototypes

are in such headers have to use "(void)" because "()" has a different meaning in C. But surely this does not apply for class functions. After all if the function is in a class than it cannot be C so there cannot be any issue with "()" meaning "an
unspecified argument list".

Regards,

Andrew Marlow
http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk

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