What Is the Proper #Include for the Function 'Sleep()'?
I Am Using the Big Nerd Ranch Book Objective-C Programming, and It Starts out by Having Us Write in C in the First Few Chapters. in One of My Programs It Has...
I am using the Big Nerd Ranch book Objective-C Programming, and it starts out by having us write in C in the first few chapters. In one of my programs it has me create, I use the sleep function. In the book it told me to put #include <stdlib.h> under the #include <stdio.h> part. This is supposed to get rid of the warning that says "Implicit declaration of function 'sleep' is invalid in C99". But for some reason after I put #include <stdlib.h>, the warning does not go away.. This problem does not stop the program from running fine, but I was just curious on which #include I needed to use!
5 Answers
The sleep man page says it is declared in <unistd.h>.
Synopsis:
#include <unistd.h>
unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds);
sleep is a non-standard function.
- On UNIX, you shall include
<unistd.h>. - On MS-Windows,
Sleepis rather from<windows.h>.
In every case, check the documentation.
this is what I use for a cross-platform code:
#ifdef _WIN32
#include <Windows.h>
#else
#include <unistd.h>
#endif
int main()
{
pollingDelay = 100
//do stuff
//sleep:
#ifdef _WIN32
Sleep(pollingDelay);
#else
usleep(pollingDelay*1000); /* sleep for 100 milliSeconds */
#endif
//do stuff again
return 0;
}
What is the proper #include for the function 'sleep()'?
sleep() isn't Standard C, but POSIX so it should be:
#include <unistd.h>
sleep(3) is in unistd.h, not stdlib.h. Type man 3 sleep on your command line to confirm for your machine, but I presume you're on a Mac since you're learning Objective-C, and on a Mac, you need unistd.h.
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