From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: extern problem
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 14:26:24 -0800
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Ryan McGee wrote:

> I'm having a problem with the extern keyword.  I'm doing a multi-file
> project in RHIDE, and I'm declaring something I want all the functions
> to be able to acess above my main and then in the other files
> declairing
> it the same way with the extern keyword before it.  The problem is
> that
> the variables are all equal to 0 when I use extern, but they have
> values
> in them in main.

Without more details, I can't give much help.  Static externals and
externals are all initialized to zero when defined.

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