From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: hello world
Date:	Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:47:14 +0100
Organization:	Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik
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Georg v. Wichert wrote:
> 
> Golem wrote:
> >
> > ugh! i can't beleive i got an error for djgpp when i first ran it!!
> > here is my source code, saved as 'hello1.cc':
> >  main() {
> >    printf("Hello world!");
> >  }
> > and when i used the msdos command line:
> >  gcc -c -Wall hello1.cc
> > i get a 'warning: implicit declaration of function 'int printf(...)'
> > what the..??
> 
> THis is not an error, but the compilers very kind way of telling
> you to learn to read your C textbooks carefully!
[...]

Right, but is this not a bug? I thought that the extension .cc
makes gcc think it is a C++ program. And under C++ prototypes
are required, otherwise an error should be generated (Which 
is, IMHO, the right punishment for not using prototypes, even
in plain C ;-) So, where am I wrong?

 
-- 
Ciao
Tom

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