Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:38:24 -0600 Message-ID: <4F490076.3536@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:38:30 -0500 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: standard include files References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 22 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.222.31 X-Trace: sv3-BlxiZmOWGeCKb6leUyRTckhIEtXLchwDWAA5y/rRw5zaWYkKgSnUvJWIIWQk0MsW3VSED4QSQoDv+cq!RutxxvBfT/FpmgFuUq1RTSy3hJ4mYPwpMCwxG/7xLgUoVewCBbh4IBOsa9bRBSwKvIQco6O94r2a!I3KSH/E6xg== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1533 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:17930 Stefan Ram wrote: > > There was a discussion once about why people do not simply > include all possible standard headers, so that they do not > have to be so careful when choosing the needed ones. The language which was described in the original K&R was like that. K&R 1 Chapter 7 Input And Output 7.1 Access to the Standard Library Each source file that refers to a standard library function must contain the line #include near the beginning. -- pete