gcc在编译过程中错误“冲突类型”和“先前声明”

Question

I am getting these errors despite declaring the "getline" and "copy" function prototypes before main(). This program comes straight from the code in The C Programming Language so I'm unsure what the issue is and how to fix it.

#include <stdio.h>

int getline(char line[], int maxline);
void copy(char to[], char from[]);

int main()
{

}

int getline(char s[], int lim)
{
    int c, i;

    for (i=0; i<lim-1 && (c=getchar())!=EOF && c!='\n'; ++i)
        s[i] = c;
    if (c == '\n') {
        s[i] = c;
        ++i;
    }
    s[i] = '\0';
    return i;
}

void copy(char to[], char from[])
{
    int i;

    i = 0;
    while ((to[i] = from[i]) != '\0')
        ++i;
}

The exact errors produced by the compiler are:

string_reverser.c:4:5: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
 int getline(char line[], int maxline);
     ^~~~~~~

In file included from string_reverser.c:1:0:
c:\mingw\include\stdio.h:650:1: note: previous declaration of 'getline' was here
 getline (char ** __restrict__, size_t * __restrict__, FILE * __restrict__);
 ^~~~~~~

string_reverser.c:27:5: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
 int getline(char s[], int lim)
     ^~~~~~~

In file included from string_reverser.c:1:0:
c:\mingw\include\stdio.h:650:1: note: previous declaration of 'getline' was here
 getline (char ** __restrict__, size_t * __restrict__, FILE * __restrict__);
 ^~~~~~~

Answer 1

The POSIX function getline() is now a standard library function which is (already) declared in <stdio.h> (but wasn't standard when K&R was written). Hence, you cannot re-declare the function a little differently in C language. A workaround is to rename your getline function to something else, eg getline_new The updated code is as below with this workaround, or you may want to switch to C++ that gives flexibility to have many functions with same name, but different arguments, including argument type (polymorphism concept)

    #include <stdio.h>

    int getline_new(char line[], int maxline);
    void copy(char to[], char from[]);

    int main()
    {

    }

    int getline_new(char s[], int lim)
    {
       int c, i;

       for (i=0; i<lim-1 && (c=getchar())!=EOF && c!='\n'; ++i)
        s[i] = c;
       if (c == '\n') {
        s[i] = c;
        ++i;
     }
     s[i] = '\0';
     return i;
    }

   void copy(char to[], char from[])
   {
    int i;

    i = 0;
    while ((to[i] = from[i]) != '\0')
        ++i;
   }