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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Global variables
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Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> writes:
> David Brown wrote:
> [snip]
>> The C standards don't have anything to say about having multiple
>> definitions (identical or otherwise) of a variable in a program.
>
>  6.7 Declarations
>   3 If an identifier has no linkage, there shall be no more than one
>                                                     ================
>     declaration of the identifier (in a declarator or type specifier) with
>     the same scope and in the same name space, ...
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>> Early
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>> exported data.)

Lew (and everyone else), please snip quoted text that you're not
replying to.  The end of your article consisted of about 226 lines
of quoted text from the parent article that you didn't comment on.
I had to skim through all of it to determine that there was no
new material.

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