Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 09:00:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: Andrew Deren <aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu>
To: rellwood <rellwood AT aludra DOT usc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Global Variables
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In your header file, on top put something like this:
#ifndef _MY_HEADER_FILE
#define _MY_HEADER_FILE
...
your header stuff
...
#endif /* at the end of header file */

that should solve your problem.


On 8 May 1997, 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.
> 
> What am I suppose to do here?
> 
> Muchos thanks,
> Richard Ellwood
> 
> 
> 
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