CODEWITHSUNDEEP
crecursion
menrva
menrva

Reputation: 63

Implicit declaration of function in recursive call C

I'm trying to write a recursive function to list out all the directories until a regular file is inputted but I get the following error:

1.c:25:21: warning: implicit declaration of function 'changeDirectoryAndGetFileName' is invalid in C99 [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] if(!isFile(sf)) changeDirectoryAndGetFileName(); ^

1 warning generated. Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_changeDirectoryAndGetFileName", referenced from: _changeDirectoryAndGetFilename in 1-b3c344.o ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64 clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Here is my code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>

void listCurrentDirectory(){
    DIR *d;
    struct dirent *entry;
    d = opendir(".");
    while((entry=readdir(d)) != NULL)printf("%s\n", (*entry).d_name);
    closedir(d);
}

int isFile(char *fname){
    struct stat pstat;
    stat(fname, &pstat);
    return S_ISREG(pstat.st_mode);
}

char *changeDirectoryAndGetFilename(){
    listCurrentDirectory();
    char sf[] = "Placeholder";
    scanf("%s", sf);
    printf("File selected: %s\n", sf);
    if(!isFile(sf)) changeDirectoryAndGetFileName();

    return "d";
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){

    if(argc != 2){
        printf("code(-c) or decode(-d)\n");
        return 1;
    }
    changeDirectoryAndGetFilename();
    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 622

Answers (1)

sepp2k
sepp2k

Reputation: 370407

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_changeDirectoryAndGetFileName", referenced from: _changeDirectoryAndGetFilename

Notice the capitalization of the n in the name of the called function compared to the calling function. In other words: changeDirectoryAndGetFilename is indeed defined, but changeDirectoryAndGetFileName (with a capital N) is not.

Upvotes: 2

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