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From: cs4n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles Humphrey Silvers)
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Subject: Re: g++ on a Decstation 3100
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Date: 26 Apr 91 05:58:40 GMT
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I had this problem too.  The actually error is that g++ is producing
.extern lines for variables actually declared in the same file.  My
solution I found was to either produce the assemble, remove the
spurious .extern's and assemble it myself, or to re-order the source
lines to put the declarations of the variables ahead of the extern's
for them (or something like that, I know that re-ordering the code
solved the problem).

I wish the MIPS assembler would be more forgiving about things like
this, or at least produce a more informative error message.

-Chuck