From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: EOF Redefined in Allegro
Date:	Sun, 21 Sep 1997 09:17:40 +0100
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Brian Osman writes:
>I haven't had any trouble yet, but when I include stdio.h and allegro.h,
>I get errors about EOF being declared twice. (In stdio.h as always, and
>in allegro.h) I'm guessing they're both defined to the same thing (I
>should go check.) but I'm wondering why it's defined in there. (As
>opposed to including stdio.h)

It's there for historical reasons, to avoid breaking some really old
programs that dated from the time when the file compression routines
were a replacement for, rather than addition to, the stdio functions. To
avoid the warning, just include stdio.h before allegro.h...


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