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Re: what is the best way

From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: what is the best way
Date 2012-11-28 08:56 +1300
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Les Cargill wrote:
> Andre wrote:
>> to organize source in a multi soucres project.
>> Is a main.h file with every definition for every sources the best or
>> a each.h file for each.c file the best.
>> It's a verry loooong time last I used c.
>> André
>
>
> There is no "best". Still:
>
> - Have one header .h per .c file.

That isn't necessarily a good idea.  If a header declares the interface 
to a module or library, the functions declared in the header are often 
defined in more than one C file.

How to manage interface declarations and implementations really depends 
on the the complexity of the application and the environment.  In most 
large projects I've seen or worked on there are a mix of public and 
module private headers.  OS libraries are a good example of this, there 
will be a public header which ends up being part of the end user 
distribution and private headers that never leave the private source tree.

> - Have all the #includes needed for that .c file #included in the .h
> file. That way, if there are 7 c files, "grep "#include" *.c | wc " will
> be 7.

This practice often causes more trouble than it is worth.

> - Have this basic structure:
>
> thing.h:
>
> #ifndef _THING_H_
> #define _THING_H_ 1

The 1 is unusual and superfluous.

-- 
Ian Collins

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what is the best way Andre <pas.mois@ailleur.be> - 2012-11-27 16:19 +0100
  Re: what is the best way Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-11-27 15:35 +0000
  Re: what is the best way Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-11-27 08:59 -0800
  Re: what is the best way James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-27 13:14 -0500
    Re: what is the best way Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-28 08:43 +1300
      Re: what is the best way James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-27 15:02 -0500
        Re: what is the best way Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-28 09:29 +1300
  Re: what is the best way Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-11-27 12:48 -0600
    Re: what is the best way Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-28 08:56 +1300
      Re: what is the best way Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-11-27 22:19 +0000
        Re: what is the best way Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-11-27 18:21 -0600
          Re: what is the best way Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-11-28 05:08 -0800
            Re: what is the best way Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-11-28 12:43 -0600
      Re: what is the best way Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-11-27 18:15 -0600
        Re: what is the best way Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-28 14:21 +1300
          Re: what is the best way Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-11-27 20:06 -0600
            Re: what is the best way Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-28 15:21 +1300
              Re: what is the best way Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-11-27 20:31 -0600
              Re: what is the best way glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-11-28 04:00 +0000
              Re: what is the best way Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-11-28 05:17 -0800
                Re: what is the best way Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-29 08:30 +1300
                Re: what is the best way Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-11-29 05:47 -0800
                Re: what is the best way Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-30 07:37 +1300
                Re: what is the best way Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-11-29 11:35 -0800
    Re: what is the best way Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-27 17:25 -0800
      Re: what is the best way Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-11-27 20:15 -0600
      Re: what is the best way pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-11-27 23:48 -0500
    Re: what is the best way Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@riseup.net> - 2012-11-28 03:06 -0200
      Re: what is the best way pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-11-28 01:35 -0500
  Re: what is the best way pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-11-28 00:13 -0500

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