A lot of Errors, owned by my function fg_bg()

[OSMAN]

I have made a function:

//Returns the total color value
char fg_bg(char fore, char back); //THIS LINE CAUSES AN ERROR
char fg_bg(char fore, char back)
{
   char total;
   total=(16*back)+fore;
   return total;
};

When I then try to:

char color = 0;
color = fg_bg(0x0f, 0x00) // don't care about these hex arguments

the compiler says:
warning: implicit declaration of function ?fg_bg?

So, What IS the problem??? I'd say that the downer code was right, right?

[codemastersnake]

may be you should use

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char fg_bg(char, char);

for declaration!

[AR]

Is that function declared in another file? The warning probably means it was used before it was declared.

[Pype.Clicker]

proper code design would be

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// --- stuff.h
// announce to anyone what 'stuff' offers
char fg_bg(char blah);

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// --- stuff.c
// do stuff
#include "stuff.h"

char fg_bg(char blah) 
{
    ...
}

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// --- other.c
#include "stuff.h"

int other()
{
    char x=fg_bg('b');
}

Including "stuff.h" in "stuff.c" allows the compiler to check the implementation matches the declaration, and including "stuff.h" in "other.c" allows the compiler to know how "stuff" can be invoked.