MK27

Why do i get this message from fedora 7's premade gcc 4.1.2 (but not from my other compiler, a homemade 3.3.6):

warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’

Salem

Maybe post some relevant code?

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MK27

test.c: In function ‘main’:
test.c:2: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’


No more, no less...

rags_to_riches

exit() requires <stdlib.h> doesn't it? That's what "man 3 exit" says.

MK27

exit() requires <stdlib.h> doesn't it? That's what "man 3 exit" says.

Correct you are...I guess the fact that "exit()" still works without stdlib.h had me confused.

Thanks!

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matsp

It "works" because you can still call any function without a prototype, the linker sorts that bit out. However, now the compiler is unable to tell whether the function is correctly used or not. It seems like 4.1.2 enables some more warnings by default, which gives you that warning. [Or perhaps exit() has been changed from a standard function to a builtin function - builtin functions are not normally extracted from a library, but instead, the compiler in itself knows how to produce the code for that function - many simple functions are builtin.]

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