From: jxh AT cs DOT wustl DOT edu (James Hu)
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Subject: Re: Can't get external variables to work!??
Date: 8 Feb 1998 03:21:46 GMT
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On Sat, 07 Feb 1998 13:56:41 -0500, Pete Becker <petebecker AT acm DOT org> wrote:
>James Hu wrote:
>> 
>> This problem could have been diagnosed if you had #include'd kbd.h into
>> kbd.c.
>
>Well, no. It's perfectly legal to have an extern declaration followed by
>a static definition. So the compiler is not required to say anything if
>you do this.

As Lawrence has pointed out, the behavior is undefined.  But, I'll amend
my statement to "might have been diagnosed".



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