From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Global Variables
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 09:46:24 -0700
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rellwood wrote:

> How in the world do I get global variables to be global in several files
> that have been linked together?  As my code is now, I have the
> declarations of the variables in a header file, but when I try to
> include
> it in more then one .c file the linker complians of multiple
> declairations.  This, of course, makes perfect sense, so I tried making
> them each extern in the header file, but that didn't work either.

You need to define them as extern in the header, not declare them there.

In the module (say):

    int x;

and in the header:

    extern int x;

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