From: "Simon Sulser" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Pointers and Arrays (Newbie) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:29:25 +0200 Organization: Usenet provided by sunrise communications ag Lines: 21 Message-ID: <8ivoqt$imj$1@news1.sunrise.ch> References: <39535e20 AT news DOT telinco DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pop-zh-9-1-dialup-226.freesurf.ch X-Trace: news1.sunrise.ch 961767069 19155 194.230.192.226 (23 Jun 2000 13:31:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sunrise DOT ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Jun 2000 13:31:09 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com You should only put declarations in header files and all definitions in cpp-files. Maybe you included your header several times in different cpp files. -- header file -- // decleration extern char const * message; -- cpp file -- #include "header.h" // definition char const *message = "Blablablabla"; Of course if you only need message in one cpp file you don't have to write the declaration into a header file at all. You can even declare it as static, which means it's local to this cpp file.