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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Novice question.
Message-ID: <14468@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 15 Nov 90 19:01:13 GMT
References: <336@brat.UUCP> <4524@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <27700@mimsy.umd.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <27700@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
-In article <4524@iitmax.IIT.EDU> gkt@iitmax.IIT.EDU (George Thiruvathukal)
-writes:
->extern int TempCount;
-	... code using TempCount ...
->/* resolution of TempCount in same compilation unit */
->int TempCount = 5;
-ANSI C has made this form illegal, and requires compilers to handle
-this form instead:
-	int TempCount;	/*T*/
-	... code using TempCount ...
-	int TempCount = 5;
-The line marked /*T*/ is called a `tenative definition' in X3.159-1989-ese.

While tentative definitions must be supported, I don't recall anything
that would make the original example not strictly conforming.