A common misconception...

Today i am going to dicuss about a misconception about function in the minds of beginners....
The common misconcption is to assume that the function of following prototype does not take any argument...
void check();
which is totally wrong ,instead the above prototype states that the function check can take any number of arguments....
-->Using the keyword void withing the braces is the correct way to tell the compiler that the function takes NO arguments.....
void check(void);

lets take an example.....

#include<stdio.h>

#include<conio.h>

void check();

void main()

{

check();

}

void check(int a,int b)

{

printf("We are on the right way now");

printf("a=%d,b=%d",a,b);

}

The above program will compile for sure,and the output will be.

output:

We are on the right way now

a=garbage,b=garbage

Now we can see this is compiling and running because we have declared function check to take any number of arguments.....

if we call check by saying check(10,20);  the output will be:

We are on the right way now

a=10,b=20

 And  we can call check by saying check(10,20,30,40,50,60,70) that is with any number of arguments...

Now change the prototype with void check(void);...now you can't use the above stuff.......