Correct or Not or Old-fashioned or Bug

[Christopher R Volpe]

In article <164 at thor.sdrc.com>, scjones at thor.sdrc.com (Larry Jones) writes:
|>Not so.  WITHIN A SINGLE SOURCE FILE, multiple tentative definitions
|>are treated as a single definition, but the cited example had them
|>scattered across multiple files.  In this case, each file would end
|>up with a definition and the linker is justified in complaining about
|>it.

Oops. Thanks. The small print on page 227 of K&R2 says that the behavior
I described is a common extension under Unix, but not Standard behavior.

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Chris Volpe
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