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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: global data in C programming... (another way)
Message-ID: <7491@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 20 Mar 88 03:41:17 GMT
References: <7506@ncoast.UUCP> <3032@haddock.ISC.COM> <10780@ut-sally.UUCP> <1089@bentley.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: global data, extern, C programming

In article <1089@bentley.UUCP> cox@bentley.UUCP (59463-MH Cox) writes:
>A better way (my opinion) would be to have one file, e.g. globals.c or in
>main.c, with all the initialized definitions.

Source code that has a large number of global data pooled like this
is woefully out of control.  The proper place for defining a global
datum (of which there should not be many!) is in the module that
controls its meaning.  If there isn't any such module, chances are
that the design is quite poor.