warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’

xzotech · 08-14-2005, 03:13 AM

Hi!
Juz got on board!
am trying to compile a program
and i got the following message...
can somebody explain what this following line means?

warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’

i got 4 lines of the same warnings that indicates 4 lines of code
that has that problem...

i tried peeking at the first problematic line of code and its something
about:

exit(-1)

xzo

keefaz · 08-14-2005, 05:43 AM

Try add #include <stdlib.h> in the source code file that generates this error

or change exit(-1) to exit(EXIT_FAILURE)