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Re:QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time by rytill on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @10:57AM (#29331259)
Why use two files instead of one?
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Re:QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time by bluedino on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @03:54PM (#29335030)
What if you want to use the functions in other C files? What if you want to compile them all separately?
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Re:QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time by hn_acc_2 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @05:11PM (#29335772)
1) Include it wherever it's used. The convention is to use the preprocessor[1] so it only appears once in the final binary

2) Most developers just want to compile to a single binary. Any developer who for some reason needs separately compiled objects should be able to quickly achieve that from a single-file library

[1] https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/blob/324c2243b2fb35f741a88d...

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