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In article <4hmslm$b3l@solutions.solon.com>, Guillaume Laurent <glaurent@nissart.lagaude.ibm.com> writes:
| I've got a question here : what if the same above declaration is made
| in two (or more) files, compiled seperately then linked together ?
| 
| ie, in file a.c : extern int i = 1;
| and in file b.c : extern int i = 2;
| 
| If I understand correctly what you've said, both of these declarations
| will reserve space, and give i a value. My question is, what decides
| which value will actually be "used", and what happens to the "duplicate"
| space ?

It's undefined.  In some implementations the first one the linker sees
wins, in other implementations the last one the linker sees wins, and in
still other implementations you get an error.
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