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From: macphee@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (SCMACPHEE)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Extern variables question
Summary: see if this sounds right...
Keywords: extern , variable , allocation
Message-ID: <694@engcon.marshall.ltv.com>
Date: 16 Nov 89 14:48:55 GMT
References: <1958@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
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If I understand the question correctly, you are trying to find out how
the int variable "i" will be scoped at link time.  I ran aross a similar
problem using VAX 'C', and it caused me a lot of heart-ache.  It appears
that when declaring outside of a function, 'C' defaults the type to 
extern.  To avoid the default extern type, declare it as static.

Hope this helped!

Scott
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