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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Style
Message-ID: <2700@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 11 Jan 89 22:02:11 GMT
References: <2688@ficc.uu.net> <9336@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <9336@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> The only thing wrong is your syntax.  You mean
> 	#include "graphics.h"
> in the latter two files.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

> In fact there is no need to place conditionals around those inclusions,
> since the included file will have no effect if it is already in force,
> bacause it checks its one-time lockout flag and avoids redefining things
> after the first time it's included in a translation unit.

Depends on the number of open files the operating system and 'C' library
allows, and on the cost of opening a file. If the files are large, this
extra set of conditionals might significantly enhance compilation speed.
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