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From: tjr@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (thomas.j.roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: where do you put prototype declarations?
Message-ID: <126@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 89 18:44:32 GMT
References: <372@serene.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <372@serene.UUCP>, by rfarris@serene.UUCP (Rick Farris):
> In article <3449@sdsu.UUCP> roetzhei@sdsu.UCSD.EDU (William Roetzheim) writes:
> 
>>   I may be the only one, but I like to put all of my function
>> prototypes in one include file which contains only function
>> prototypes. . .

I do this, too, but use a tool to pull out all of the declarations from
the files containing the definitions. This tool puts "/* foo.c */" ahead
of the prototypes from file foo.c, so it serves as a (crude) index to
functions. I do NOT make the object files depend upon this header file
(called "proto.h"), nor do I automatically re-create proto.h whenever
any .c files are modified; I need to explicitly re-create proto.h whenever
I change the definition of, or add any functions.

Tom Roberts
AT&T Bell Laboratories
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