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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.

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					Kevin Hunter
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