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According to Richard Dawe:
> An "identifier with external linkage" in this case would be a global variable.
> 
> I guess the two options you have are:
> 
> (1) In a new source module define a library internal function to return the
> error-handling status. E.g.:
> 
> #include <math.h>
> 
> static const int __math_errhandling = MATH_ERRNO|MATH_ERREXCEPT;
> 
> int __get_math_errhandling (void)
> {
>   return __math_errhandling;
> }
> 
> Then in <math.h> define the macro to call the function:
> 
> extern int __get_math_errhandling(void);
> #define math_errhandling (__get_math_errhandling());
> 
> (2) Just define the macro:
> 
> #define math_errhandling (MATH_ERRNO|MATH_ERREXCEPT)

(3) just define the variable:
<math.h>:
extern int math_errhandling; /* Perhaps with const too. */

some/path/math_err.c:
int math_errhandling = SOME_VALUE;

?


Right,

						MartinS