Implicit Declaration of Function in C on CodeBlocks

Question

Hello I am practicing my knowledge in C language I am trying to make a simple calculator but I encountered this warning Implicit Declaration of Function but the function that I called has been executed. I tried to fix it with this void start(); but the function did not execute.

Successful executed the function start(); but have a implicit warning:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void addition()
{
    int vala, valb, resu;
    system("cls");
    printf("SiMPLE CALCULATOR 1.0a\n");
    printf("ADDITION\n");
    printf("\n");
    printf("Enter the first value of addend: ");
    scanf("%d", &vala);
    printf("Enter the second value of addend: ");
    scanf("%d", &valb);
    resu=vala+valb;
    printf("The sum of %d and %d is: %d\n", vala, valb, resu);
    printf("PRESS [ANY KEY] TO CONTINUE...");
    getch();

    start(); \\THIS CODE
}

void start()
{
    char ope;
    system("cls");
    printf("SiMPLE CALCULATOR 1.0a\n");
    printf("What operation will be used:");
    scanf("%s", &ope);

    if (ope == 'a')
    {
        addition();
    }
    else if (ope == 'b')
    {
        printf("bbbbbbbbbbbb\n");
    }
    else
    {
        printf("ccccccccccc\n");
    }

}

int main()
{
    int choices;
    printf("SiMPLE CALCULATOR 1.0a\n");
    printf("choose an option:");
    scanf("%d", &choices);

    if (choices == 1)
    {
        start();
    }

    getch();
    return 0;
}

Failed to execute the function void start(); start but no implicit warning:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void addition()
{
    int vala, valb, resu;
    system("cls");
    printf("SiMPLE CALCULATOR 1.0a\n");
    printf("ADDITION\n");
    printf("\n");
    printf("Enter the first value of addend: ");
    scanf("%d", &vala);
    printf("Enter the second value of addend: ");
    scanf("%d", &valb);
    resu=vala+valb;
    printf("The sum of %d and %d is: %d\n", vala, valb, resu);
    printf("PRESS [ANY KEY] TO CONTINUE...");
    getch();

    void start(); \\THIS CODE
}

void start()
{
    char ope;
    system("cls");
    printf("SiMPLE CALCULATOR 1.0a\n");
    printf("What operation will be used:");
    scanf("%s", &ope);

    if (ope == 'a')
    {
        addition();
    }
    else if (ope == 'b')
    {
        printf("bbbbbbbbbbbb\n");
    }
    else
    {
        printf("ccccccccccc\n");
    }

}

int main()
{
    int choices;
    printf("SiMPLE CALCULATOR 1.0a\n");
    printf("choose an option:");
    scanf("%d", &choices);

    if (choices == 1)
    {
        start();
    }

    getch();
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

start() is declare after addition(), but in addition() you call start(), so the compiler don't know what start() is. Also, in start() you also call addition(), so the best way to reslove this is using forward declaration:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void start(void); /* forward declaration */
void addition(void); /* forward declaration */

void addition(void)
{
    int vala, valb, resu;
    system("cls");
    printf("SiMPLE CALCULATOR 1.0a\n");
    printf("ADDITION\n");
    printf("\n");
    printf("Enter the first value of addend: ");
    scanf("%d", &vala);
    printf("Enter the second value of addend: ");
    scanf("%d", &valb);
    resu=vala+valb;
    printf("The sum of %d and %d is: %d\n", vala, valb, resu);
    printf("PRESS [ANY KEY] TO CONTINUE...");
    getch();

    start(); 
}

void start(void)
{
    char ope;
    system("cls");
    printf("SiMPLE CALCULATOR 1.0a\n");
    printf("What operation will be used:");
    scanf("%s", &ope);

    if (ope == 'a')
    {
        addition();
    }
    else if (ope == 'b')
    {
        printf("bbbbbbbbbbbb\n");
    }
    else
    {
        printf("ccccccccccc\n");
    }

}

Answer 2

It is not advisable to take measures which allow you to call start from addition, leading to a potentially infinite recursion, only to fake a loop. Better drop the start(); call in addition and replace the scanf("%s", &ope); with while (scanf(" %c", &ope) > 0).