VScode error: conflicting types for ‘s_gets‘-C语言显示自定义函数类型矛盾

在VScode里面编写C语言自定义函数的时候，出现error: conflicting types for 's_gets’的错误
后面还有个提示：previous implicit declaration of ‘s_gets’ was here s_gets

int main(void)
{
    char word[10];
    printf("please enter an character:\n");
    s_gets(word,10);
    while(strcmp(word,"du") != 0){
        puts("No,that's wrong");
        s_gets(word,10);
    }
    puts("YES,that's right!!");

    return 0;
}


char * s_gets(char * st,int n){
    char * ret_val;
    int i = 0;
    ret_val = fgets(st,n,stdin);
    if(ret_val != NULL){
        while(st[i] != '\n' && st[i] != '\0'){
            i++;
        }
        if(st[i] == '\n'){
            st[i] = '\0';
        }else{
            while(getchar() != '\n'){
                continue;
            }
        }
    }
    return ret_val;
}

解决办法：添加函数声明char * s_gets(char * st,int n);
真是笑死，这都能错，哎，记录一下吧！