Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hcr.UUCP Path: utzoo!hcr!sanand From: sanand@hcr.UUCP (Sanand Patel) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Whitesmith and static variable init. Message-ID: <456@hcr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 09:20:12 EDT Article-I.D.: hcr.456 Posted: Wed Jul 27 09:20:12 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jul-83 09:55:39 EDT References: <866@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto Lines: 4 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 ...