From:	XkidCodeR <lil_str8_shooter AT usa DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Newbie question - want to have one function in a separate file, how do I code?
Date:	Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:05:58 +1100
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Stuart Hall wrote:

> I can't ask this is the C groups because I am afraid that it is
> compiler specific...  anyway...
>
> I have made an implementation of gets() that is a lot safer than the
> standard function - it is safer because it won't overrun an array.
>
> I would like to include this function in just about every program that
> I write, but I don't really want to write the function prototype and
> copy and paste the function into every program.  Is there a method for
> placing either the Object file, or the C file in a common location and
> calling for it with an #include statement?
>
> I tried compiling the two programs together by accident (I had both of
> them open at once in RHIDE), where make tried creating an aout.o file,
> but I got all sorts of errors about multiple #include statements (I
> use the <string.h> header in both the getsafe() program and my main
> program.
>
> Is the method to simply create a file with just the function and its
> prototype without any #include information?
>
> I really need to try looking at the 'info' documentation some more,
> but if anyone has any additional advice, I'd be glad to hear it.
>
> Thanks,
> Stuart
> - ratboy
> (don't be surprised if you email me and the response
> comes back from somewhere else - iname.com is just a
> forwarding service)

Well here is something that you can try put the code into a header file (
a file with the .h extension) then copy the file to your include path.
Then its a matter of simply including that header file into your code eg.
#include <getsafe.h>
then you can use it in any of your source code without putting it into
every file.

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