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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Zortech bugs
Message-ID: <1870@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 89 21:09:25 GMT
References: <2118@windy.dsir.govt.nz> <4800049@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <2285@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz>
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In article <2285@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz> tonyo@qitfit.qitcs.oz (Tony O'Hagan) writes:
>I have a similar problem ...  Zortech won't link multiple object files
>created from a header containing a class with static variables.

Declaring the class:
	class abc
	{	static int def = 3;
	};
Will cause multiple definitions (because common blocks cannot have
initializers).
It should be declared as:
	class abc
	{	static int def;
	};
and then in ONE of the modules:
	int abc::def = 3;
However, the int abc::def=3; is not implemented yet, but I will do it
soon.