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From: yedinak@motcid.UUCP (Mark A. Yedinak)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Novice question.
Message-ID: <5329@catfish11.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 90 16:19:18 GMT
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longshot@monkey.ecn.purdue.edu (The Knight Guard) writes:

:>	"extern" means that the variable is global, and was declared in a
:>separate .c file.  If your program occupies only 1 file, you will never
:>use this.
:>
:>John Gordon

:	Not true here...  Our cc seems to require that all functions/procedures
:  be defined before the main block.  The way around this is to extern all 
:  functions before main...  Dunno if this is just our compiler, anyone else
:  seen this?  Any ideas of why?

Sounds like Pascal to me. :) Seriously though, this sounds like this is just
your compiler. I have never seen this on any of the half dozen or so compilers I
have used.

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