What is this strange function definition syntax in C? [duplicate]

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Those are old K&R style function parameter declarations, declaring the types of the parameters separately:

int func(a, b, c)
   int a;
   int b;
   int c;
{
  return a + b + c;
}

This is the same as the more modern way to declare function parameters:

int func(int a, int b, int c)
{
  return a + b + c;
}

The “new style” declarations are basically universally preferred.

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