Thread: #include *.h file confused me...

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    #include *.h file confused me...

    Good day.

    Is there any clear rule for how and when to include *.h ?

    Sometime i found some of the *.h work well at A.h or at A.cpp.
    Sometime i found if C.h was inclued by B.h, and i only need include B.h at A.h for the execute A.cpp. If i still included C.h at A.h. Does C.h will be compiled twice or not?

    Thanks!
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    You are confusing me. Anyway, here's the gist of what I think you need to know:
    • Use header inclusion guards for your own headers.
    • If you need a definition from a header, include it.
    • If you need a declaration from a header, consider a forward declaration instead.
    • Do not rely on a header including another header since that fact may change under maintenance.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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    i guess i understand.

    Thank you a lot!
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