C Program to demonstrate usage of #error directive

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The #error directive is one of the C preprocessor directives whose purpose is to stop the compilation process when a violation of constraint is found.

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This program demonstrates the use of #error directive in Turbo C++ that is running on a DOS Box 0.74 system running on a Windows 7 64-bit PC.

Problem Definition

In this program, we are trying to write a program for finding q square-root of a number. To find square root we need a function called sqrt() which is part of Math.h header file.

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The header file is not included in the programming which is an error. The #error directive will find this error and throw a user-defined message before terminating the compilation process.

Program Code – #error

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#ifndef _MATH_H
#error First include header file then compile
#else
main()
{

    float a,b = 25;
          a = sqrt(b);

          printf("%f\n",a);

          return 0;

}

#endif

Output – #error directive

The output from the program is a compilation error – #error directive in turbo C++ compiler.

First include header file then compile

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