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Article #901Re: Why can't you define an external object twice and never use it?
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 14:31
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 14:31
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In article <54@looney.twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
->the real problem is that you have violated the "only one
->initialization" constraint.
-Where is this constraint written down? It's not in either pANS 3.5.7
-("Initialization") or pANS 3.7 ("External definitions"), where I would
-have expected it. I fear it was so obvious that it wasn't written
-down anywhere.
It's there somewhere; I remember seeing it a few days ago while
looking for something else. Maybe it's part of the definition
of an object.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Why can't you define an external object twice and never use it? Message-ID: <11593@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 14 Nov 89 14:31:20 GMT References: <53@looney.twinsun.com> <11582@smoke.BRL.MIL> <54@looney.twinsun.com> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 11