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From: sanand@hcr.UUCP (Sanand Patel)
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Subject: Re: Whitesmith and static variable init.
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Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 09:20:12 EDT
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You can't just initalize every un-initialized external variable to zero,
because multiple module (file) programs would result in 
multiple declarations (in the assembly code)
for variables mentioned in more than one file ...