Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: .header(ing) them off at the pass
Message-ID: <5077@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 12 Jul 88 22:37:19 GMT
References: <28400001@ntvax> <6104@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <2955@ihlpe.ATT.COM> <1076@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> <1049@ficc.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <1049@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>What does your compiler do when you say this?
>	extern int foo;
>	int foo = 10;
>
>Mine tells me I'm trying to initialise an extern and refuses to compile it.
>What do you do about this?

I'd report the bug to the vendor, and/or buy a working compiler from someone
else.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint