Why do I get a “conflicting types for getline” error when compiling the longest line example in chapter 1 of K&R2?

Question

Here is a program I\'m trying to run straight from section 1.9 of \"The C Programming Language\".

#include 
#define MAXLINE 1000

int getline(         


        

Answer 1

This is because the stdio.h have a getline() function.

So a simple thing to make this work would be to rename your function to my_getline()

Both getline() and getdelim() were originally GNU extensions. They were standardized in POSIX.1-2008.