From: fprintf AT iname DOT com (Stuart Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Newbie question - want to have one function in a separate file, how do I code?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:50:06 GMT
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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
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