Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:22:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Marcus <mesthlm AT hem DOT passagen DOT se>
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Subject: Re: Values in header ?? (urgent)
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Marcus wrote:

> Why canīt I declare a value in a header without get the error "multiple
> definiton" when I include the header several times? I have tried #ifndef but
> NOTHING seems to work.

You are probably assuming that the compiler remembers the #define it saw
in one file when it is compiling the next.  This is not so: each file is
preprocessed from a clean state, so the definition of the variable is
included twice, and the linker complains.