calling my custom function same as library function

From: Deniz Bahar (deniz.bahar_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: 27 Feb 2005 17:55:39 -0800

Hi,

I would like to call one of my functions the exact name as an existing
C library function (for example K&R2 exercises asks me to make an atof
function). If I don't include the header with the declaration for the
C library function (stdlib.h in this case) then define/declare my own
function with the same name, am I safe? It seems to work on my
compiler, but I wonder if this is portable or even acceptable? thx

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