why function declaration and definition in same file?

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:00:24AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>  i just noticed a recent change to networking/interface.c:
>
>=======================================
>--- interface.c (revision 15060)
>+++ interface.c (working copy)
>@@ -1729,6 +1729,7 @@
>        return res;
> }
>
>+int display_interfaces(char *ifname);
> int display_interfaces(char *ifname)
> {
>        int status;
>=======================================
>
>  when did it suddenly become good programming practise to add

It did not.

>function declarations to a source file immediately before the
>corresponding function definition?  and the same thing has been done
>in route.c as well.  why?


http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-May/021253.html
http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-May/021254.html

Care to send a patch which fixes this proper?