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Jeff Szuhay
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Jeff Szuhay

Jeff Szuhay is the principal developer at QuarterTil2 which specializes in graphics-rich software chronographs for desktop environments. In his software career of over 35 years, he has engaged in a full range of development activities from systems analysis and systems performance tuning to application design, from initial development through full testing and final delivery. Throughout that time, he has taught computer applications and programming languages at various educational levels from elementary school students to university students, as well as developed and presented professional, on-site training.
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Preparing dealer.c for make

Before turning our focus to make, we need to first revisit the header file organization we used in our dealer program. In that set of files, we took a simplistic approach where every source file included the same header file, dealer.h, which itself included all the header files from each of the source files. This was a shortcut that is not typical of most C source files. Including all the header files in a single header file and then only including that one file has limiting and possibly undesirable implications. First, doing this assumes that all source files are bound together and interdependent. Second, it means if any source file or header file changes, we must recompile all of the files to regenerate the program. For projects with many files, this means a lot of unnecessary work needs to be done; instead, we’d like to just compile the files that change and then link the unchanged and changed files together. We cannot do that with our previous...

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Published in: Aug 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801078450

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Jeff Szuhay

Jeff Szuhay is the principal developer at QuarterTil2 which specializes in graphics-rich software chronographs for desktop environments. In his software career of over 35 years, he has engaged in a full range of development activities from systems analysis and systems performance tuning to application design, from initial development through full testing and final delivery. Throughout that time, he has taught computer applications and programming languages at various educational levels from elementary school students to university students, as well as developed and presented professional, on-site training.
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