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From: kearns@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: 1 Definition Allowed
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.202530.15347@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 90 20:25:30 GMT
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Reply-To: kearns@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns)
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E&S (3.1) says only one definition is allowed per program for any
name.  It also claims that "struct S { int a; int b; };" is a
definition of a struct.  But this seems to imply that such a struct
declaration cannot appear in a header file which will be included in
more than 1 compilation unit!!!!!  This is obviously counter to
anyone's intuition, so what gives?

-steve