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Because there was a legacy of using functions without declaring them.

Can't use functions without including the headers.

A new feature of C99: The rule for implicit declaration of functions has been removed in C99.
The effect is to guarantee the production of a diagnostic that will catch an additional category of
25 programming errors. After issuing the diagnostic, an implementation may choose to assume an
implicit declaration and continue translation in order to support existing programs that exploited
this feature.

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