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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When do you #include <stdlib.h>?
Message-ID: <1035@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 21:31:31 GMT
References: <4991@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <13100007@bucc2>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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>> I realized today that you can call functions that are in stdlib.h
>> without actually including [stdlib.h].

Sometimes.  Those that are real functions, maybe.

> If you didn't want to include <stdlib>, you could [have] done the
> prototype yourself:
> long atol();
>   or if you are blessed with an ANSI compiler
> long atol(char *str);

Unless, of course, what stdlib.h actually says is

#define atol(s) _builtin_atol(s)

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