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 Lines: 12 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