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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Why can't you define an external object twice and never use it?
Message-ID: <11582@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Nov 89 19:17:14 GMT
References: <53@looney.twinsun.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <53@looney.twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
>	int X = 0;
>	int X = 0;
>However, none of these prohibitions apply to the above program.  What's wrong?

I don't know why you cite constraints on multiple definition;
the real problem is that you have violated the "only one initialization"
constraint.