Well, the compiler needs to know how the function printf() is to be
used, and it can only find that information by looking at
/usr/include/stdio.h (or wherever the system puts it).
(A book on c would probably be helpful.)
dan
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:10 AM, yacson <yactiem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody.
> Sorry, I'm a new user and i want to understand why this c code work (in
> linux I'm worling on mandriva 2009 spring)?
> main()
> {printf("hello,world");}
>
> why does not the compiler complain about the missing stdio.h ? it just gives
> "warning:incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function printf" and
> actually prints the string "hello,world".
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