strcpy & declaration of functions

Shankar Unni shankar at hpclscu.HP.COM
Wed Jun 14 05:58:23 AEST 1989


> This is for all you standards nuts out there.  When declaring FUNCTIONS
> which is better.   
>   extern int  atoi();
>     or
>   int  atoi();

Both are quite legal. From a purely coding-standard point of view, I 
use the first form for a function that is not in this compilation unit.
I use the second form when it is a forward declaration for a function
in this compilation unit.

Makes the source a *little* easier to read.
----
Shankar.



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