ANSI C prototypes

Markku Savela Markku.Savela at tel.vtt.fi
Sun Nov 4 18:45:11 AEST 1990


In article <-BV6Q16 at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> In addition to the problem of
>> keeping the include files up to date,

>That is the real problem. You need a tool to extract the prototypes from
>a file. Beyond that, make will do the rest.

  Yes, but this is a bad habit. The include file should be the external
specification of the module. Any changes in external specification
shouldn't be so frequent, if you have the code done right.
--
Markku Savela (savela at tel.vtt.fi), Technical Research Centre of Finland
Telecommunications Laboratory, Otakaari 7 B, SF-02150 ESPOO, Finland



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