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From: diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Include files
Message-ID: <10026@diamond.csl.sony.JUNET>
Date: 30 Jan 89 05:02:35 GMT
References: <10991@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <9526@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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In article <10991@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> raghavan@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Vijay Raghavan) writes:

> main() {
> #include <stdio.h>
> FILE *xx;
> ... 
> }
> proc1() {
> #include <stdio.h>
> FILE *yy;
> ...
> }

In article <9526@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:

[First three points, good and helpful ones, omitted.]

> The final point is that the standard headers may be included more
> than once with no effect different from being included exactly once.

True, but Mr. Raghavan unwittingly posed a problem.  The effect must
be as if the header were included exactly once, yes, -- but -- as if
the header were included at which place? !

[I have been asked not to complain about inews requiring filler lines]
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Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net)
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