From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: #include statements necessary?
Date:	Sat, 22 Aug 1998 23:41:01 -0400
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Jason, Stacey and Noah Huebel wrote:
> 
> I am very new to using DJGPP, so bear with me.  I am using RHIDE as my
> editor.  Therefore, please pinpoint where the following "problem" may be
> occurring:
> 
> I have been using some example code to learn C.  But I noticed one time that
> when I accidentally left out an #include for string.h (for strlen, etc), the
> program still compiled and ran without error.  So, does RHIDE automatically
> add these #include statements if they are left out?  I noticed similar
> results if I left out stdio.h.

Checking for prototypes isn't RHIDE's job; it's merely a frontend for
the gcc compiler.  What you probably need to do is go to the
Options|Compiler|Warnings menu and check the '-Wall' box.  This will
(among other things) give you warnings when you leave out necessary
header files.

hth!

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