What is prototype of a function in C programming

What is prototype of a function in c programming?

Declaration of function is known as prototype of a function. Prototype of a function means

(1) What is return type of function?

(2) What parameters are we passing?

(3) For example prototype of printf function is:

int printf(const char *, …);

I.e. its return type is int data type, its first parameter constant character pointer and second parameter is ellipsis i.e. variable number of arguments.

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