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From: btb@ncoast.UUCP (Brad Banko)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: global data in C programming...
Message-ID: <7506@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 01:47:42 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
Lines: 40
Keywords: global data, extern, C programming

how does one use global data in C programming?
i thought that you just create a header file containing the global data
declarations and then #include it into each of your source files, but
when i try this (using Mark Williams C on an Atari ST), I get
a "symbol redefined" message from the linker.

basically, the type of thing that I am trying to do is:

x.h:
	int i,j;

x.c:
#include "x.h"

xyz() {
	i = ...
}

y.c:
#include "x.h"

zzt() {
	i = j ...
}


K&R doesn't help me out... the stuff about externs and header files is
sort of minimal.

Thanks.


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