Function declaration in C and C++
- by Happy Mittal
I have two C++ files, say file1.cpp and file2.cpp as
//file1.cpp
#include<cstdio>
void fun(int i)
{
printf("%d\n",i);
}
//file2.cpp
void fun(double);
int main()
{
fun(5);
}
When I compile them and link them as c++ files, I get an error "undefined reference to fun(double)".
But when I do this as C files, I don't get error and 0 is printed instead of 5.
Please explain the reason.
Moreover I want to ask whether we need to declare a function before defining it because
I haven't declared it in file1.cpp but no error comes in compilation.
