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From: leo@atcmp.nl (Leo  Willems)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: extern const definition
Message-ID: <615@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 5 Jun 90 20:52:55 GMT
References: <240@taumet.COM>
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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From article <240@taumet.COM>, by steve@taumet.COM (Stephen Clamage):
> In article <612@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> leo@atcmp.nl (Leo  Willems) writes:
>>
>>This C++ code compiles under 1.2, 2.0 (both Glockenspiel) and Zortech (2.06):
>>		extern const int eof = -1;
>>The C generating cfront compilers both emit multiple definitions for eof
>>from which the c compiler gets a headache.
> 
> You should use
> 		extern const int eof = -1;
> in exactly one place, and
> 		extern const int eof;
> everywhere else.  This way you have exactly one defining instance.

Yes, thank you, that works.

What I did (wrong?) was to include the #include-file with the external
declaration into the file where the actual initialisation is done.
This seemed the right way to do :-(


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