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From: sanders@cactus.org (Tony Sanders)
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Subject: Re: Redeclaration of Variables extern/static
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Date: 16 Apr 91 00:57:22 GMT
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In article <^R+_H3-@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
>On an IBM RS/6000 (it wasn't my idea) in generates an identifier
>redeclared error and exits during compilation.
To work around the problem you can simply change the name of the thing
so it doesn't conflict with anything else (if it's called foo rename it
to my_foo) and then remove the "static".

Ugly but it works.

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