Re: g_remove

[Jaroslav ÅmÃd <jardasmid gmail com>]

C99 has no implicit int shits, so don't ignore compiler's warning and 
fix it.

David NeÄas: "All according to the C standard". Right, you didn't tell 
us which one, one could think you mean "every C standard out there". C99 
is old enough to be supported by decent compilers, older standards 
aren't worth mentioning or using.

On 02/17/2011 06:56 PM, David NeÄas wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:45:36PM -0500, Craig Bakalian wrote:
> > I have gtk and glib as includes?  Am I missing something?
>
> Yes, on Unix the g_-wrappers are often just macros resolving to the
> underlying system function.  So you need to
>
> #include<stdio.h>
>
> to get the real declarations (dunno why it's not done automatically in
> this case).
>
> > If there
> > wasn't the right include, the build would fail, further, the function
> > wouldn't remove the file.
>
> On the contrary, unless you pass -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
> or an equivalent of that to the compiler the missing declaration just
> causes a warning.  The compiler then implicitly constructs the prototype
> as `takes whatever argument you happen to pass to it and returns int'
> which is sufficiently right here and the program works fine.  All
> according to the C standard.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yeti
>
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