From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!ihnp4!ihldt!ll1!otuxa!we13!lime!houti!kdh Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Unix 5.0 Mcc vs. cc stuff Article-I.D.: houti.190 Posted: Thu Dec 30 16:15:22 1982 Received: Sat Jan 1 00:57:22 1983 In the not-too-distant past, I saw quite a bit of back and forth about the changes to the Unix version 5.0 C compiler, which led to the distribution of "Mcc" as well as "cc". As I recall, the new "cc" would balk at "multiple external declarations", and "Mcc" had had a lobotomy to avoid this. I, however, being of a dubious level of mentality, do not quite understand exactly what is meant by "multiple external declarations". Would one of you nice folks out there take pity on me and provide a concrete definition (preferably with examples - I work better if I can see it) of the problem and what can be done to rectify the problem so that I can begin to re-hack my code so that it will pass the new "cc" when we get 5.0 installed? A response by mail is probably in order, although I imagine there may be others out there with the same problem. Burned out BEFORE New Year's Kevin Hunter houti!kdh {houxg, houxe}!houti!kdh