From: utzoo!decvax!cca!chris.umcp-cs@Udel-Relay@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Library functions with non-integer return types Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3340 Posted: Sat Sep 18 01:31:29 1982 Received: Wed Sep 22 10:36:54 1982 From: Chris TorekDate: 15 Sep 82 1:57:03-EDT (Wed) Declaring functions in header files does not cost anything in the Portable C Compiler. The compiler does only one thing with function declarations that have no body: put the function into the definitions table with the right type and a definition of "unneeded". When the function is REFERENCED the definition becomes "external".